It has been expanded in the following three aspects:
1. Writing about the luxury of the city and the prosperity of the streets. About 1/5 of his ci collections are urban ci, describing Bianjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and other cities, observing the cities from the perspective of citizens and reflecting the economic prosperity in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. Such as
2, the words of detention. It reflects his complicated life experiences such as inner contradictions, depression, sadness and desolation during his career, and integrates lofty and sad images and lonely and quiet feelings into the theme of official travel, so that the lyrical scenes of such words are transformed from the narrow world of flowers and moonshine beside the wine lamp into a journey of mountains and rivers with thousands of miles of smoke and waves, and the realm is wide. Such as
3, erotic words. In the previous male ci poems, women's consciousness of love was mostly confined to always in my heart who felt sorry for herself, which was in line with the aesthetic taste of the wandering literati, while Liu Yong wrote the inner world of a geisha with an equal attitude, expressing the bold and provocative love pursuit of secular women and the painful voice of abandoned civilian women in his ci poems, which was full of sympathy. Such as "Ding Feng Bo Zi Chun Lai"