The person who was greatly influenced by Lu You in the Song Dynasty, Chen Zilong and Xia Wanchun in the Ming Dynasty, and also inspired by Gong Zizhen was Liu Yazi. The ideological content and artistic characteristics of Liu Yazi's poems before and after the Revolution of 1911 were influenced by the above people. .
He is a political poet who uses poetry as a weapon. His poems are closely integrated with the development of the bourgeois democratic revolution, filled with strong patriotism and democratic passion, criticizing the decadence and decline of the feudal system and the sad reality of low morale.