In the Tang Dynasty, people thought that Meng's poems were a kind of "Yuanhe style", "Yuanhe has fallen" and "learning is too exciting for Meng Jiao" (supplemented by Li Zhao's Tang Shi). At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Wei wrote a picture of the poet's subject and object, and regarded it as a "lonely and bitter owner". Song Dynasty poets Mei and Xie Ao, Qing Dynasty poets Hu Tianyou, Jiang□ and Xu Chengyao were all influenced by him. After Han Yu and Li Guan, there are also some related works, such as Xiu, Huang Tingjian, Fei Zhou, Pan Deyu, Liu Xizai, Chen Yan, Qian Zhen and Xia Jingguan. Both he and Jia Dao are famous for their bitter songs. Su Shi called it "being thin outside the cold island" (Yu Wen in Sacrifice to Liu Zi), and later critics took Meng Jiao and Jia Dao as representatives of bitter poets. Yuan Haowen even laughed at him as a "poet prisoner".
In Meng Jiao's life, the days of "Spring Breeze" are very short. He was almost poor all his life, and even the funeral after his death was organized by friends such as Han Yu. Although he lived in poverty and his political career was short, it was this kind of life predicament that cast his gloomy, cold and simple poetic style and made him a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. He and Jia Dao are known as "gifted poets" and "thin suburban islands".