Liu Yong belongs to the graceful school. He called himself "Liu Sanbian, who wrote lyrics in sequence", devoted his life to lyrics and boasted that "white clothes are fluttering". His poems mostly describe the city scenery and the life of geisha, and he is especially good at expressing his feelings of travel and service, and has created many slow words. Description, scene blending, popular language and harmonious melody were widely circulated at that time. It is said that "where there is well water to drink, there is Liu Ci to sing", which has a great influence on the development of Song Ci.
Su Shi belongs to the uninhibited school. He extended the spirit of the poetry innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty to the field of ci, swept away the traditional style of ci since the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, created an unrestrained school that kept pace with the graceful school, expanded the theme of ci, enriched the artistic conception of ci, broke through the boundary between poetry and poetry, and made great contributions to the innovative development of ci. His representative works include Nian Nujiao and Shuidiao Tou, which created the first example of unconstrained ci, and was also called "Su Xin" with Xin Qiji. Liu Chenweng said in the preface to Xinjiaxuan: "Ci is broad and aboveboard, like poetry, prose and wonders of heaven and earth."
From the subject matter, Su Shi's early works mainly reflect his "specific political worries", while his later works mainly focus on "broad life worries" and take evil as their hatred. "He is like a fly in Taiwan Province, and it is his own if he spits it out". His flowing works triggered the Wutai poetry case. Huangzhou's relegated life made him "ironic and cruel, sharp in writing style, nervous and angry, all of which disappeared and replaced by a brilliant, warm, kind, tolerant and harmonious understanding." Very sweet, very mature, very thorough and deep. "
In terms of style, the previous works are magnificent and unrestrained, such as a flood bursting its banks and spilling thousands of miles; Later works are ethereal and meaningful, simple and light, such as Deep Willow and White Pear Flower.