Bai Juyi advocated the new Yuefu movement in the form of poetry creation. The New Yuefu Movement is a poetic innovation movement initiated by Tang poets Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Zhang Ji and Li Shen. It advocates restoring the system of ancient poetry anthology, carrying forward the tradition of satirizing current affairs in the Book of Songs and Yuefu in Han and Wei Dynasties, making poetry play the role of "commenting on current affairs" and "releasing human feelings", and emphasizing writing current affairs with the theme of new Yuefu created by itself, hence the name New Yuefu.
The so-called new Yuefu is relative to the ancient Yuefu. Guo Maoqian in Song Dynasty pointed out that the new Yuefu was a new song in Tang Dynasty. With its words, Yuefu has never heard of it, so it is called Xinle Yuefu. ("Yuefu Poetry"), Hu Zhenheng in the Ming Dynasty said: Yuefu has different themes, such as Yuefu below the Han and Wei Dynasties, Yuefu above Sui Chen, and Yuefu written by ancient Tang people; The new topic, the ancient Yuefu has disappeared, and the Tang people made a new system.