Confucius in The Analects of Confucius? Yang Huo put forward that "poetry can be blamed". "Poetry can blame" means that poetry can "blame politics" (The Analects of Confucius quoted by Kong Anguo), in fact, it means that poetry can satirize and criticize bad political and social phenomena in reality. Many folk songs and some literati works in The Book of Songs satirized and criticized the social reality at that time, such as Shuo Shu and Ge Tan in the famous folk songs, The Turn of the First Month in Chinese, Sang Rou and Min Lao in Elegant, all of which were "resentful thorns".
"Poems can be complained" has had a great influence on the literary creation of later generations in China, especially on poetry creation, and has become a fine tradition of criticizing reality in China's classical poetry. Many ancient and even modern poets have criticized and exposed the dark reality in their works, such as the criticism of dark politics in the poems of Qu Yuan, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Guo Moruo, Wen Yiduo and Ai Qing, which can be said to be influenced by "poetry can complain".