Bai Juyi was a great realistic poet in Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi's poems have a wide range of themes, diverse forms and popular language. He wrote a lot of satirical poems reflecting the sufferings of people's livelihood. For example, Selling Charcoal Weng describes the hardships of an old man burning charcoal to make a living. Through the experience of selling charcoal Weng, he deeply exposed the corrupt nature of the "palace market", gave a powerful whip to the ruler's crime of plundering the people, satirized the corrupt social reality at that time, and expressed the author's deep sympathy for the lower working people.
Watching the Wheat Harvest describes the busy farming scene in the wheat harvest season, criticizes the poverty of the people caused by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees, and feels deeply guilty that the poet can have plenty of food and clothing without virtue and pains, showing the humanitarian spirit of a feudal official with conscience.