Qian Zhonglian, a master of contemporary Chinese studies, wrote in "On Forty Poets in Modern Times": "In the 300 years of Qing poetry, Wang Qi was in Yelang, and after training, he was abolished, breaking this southern shortage." It is intended to praise true poetry and Confucian classics. Zhengzhen and Yelang do have a complex. First of all, Zhengzhen became close friends with Zhao Xu, a famous poet in this county. Zheng's "interview" is the official record of Zunyi. Later, on February 27th (1860) in Gengshen, Xianfeng, Qing Dynasty, Zheng moved his family to Yangjiahe at Tongzi Station, and rented the Liu Mansion adjacent to the Zhao family for four months. In the meantime, Zheng, Zhao and Liu Xixiang climbed the mountain and visited Shengdiao Valley to sing. Zheng's Chasing the Nest contains more than 40 poems and Tung Zi. His major works in Confucian Classics and philology include: A Book of Confucian Classics, Eight Notes on Yi Li's Private School, Two Notes on the Analects of Confucius, One Book of Fu Zhong's Illustration, One Book of Relatives, Two Books of Shuowen, One Book of Shuowen's Appendix, and A New Examination of Shuowen. Zhengzhen's achievements in literature are mainly manifested in his poems with rich flavor of life. He comes from a poor family, and has participated in chopping wood, burning fire, weaving, ploughing and hoeing, and has a deep understanding of the sufferings of the people and the greed of officials. His poems such as Looking for Dogs, Heavy Rain in the Morning of June 20th, Three Poems of Zhejiang Sea Lead Factory, Hotel Pass and Mourning After Death truly reflect these contents. "Well well Jing Quan for water, Tian Tian beans fall lazy to collect a basket. The corruption of feudal officials is vivid in my mind. " Tiger pawns don't go to tiger slaves, and they are thunderous to urge them to donate. Thunder has been crying, and it is reported that his Weng is dead. Sir, I gnashed my teeth with anger. I don't want to die. I just want money. The picture shows that ghosts are reduced, and there are no outsiders in this county! Instead, he sent someone to catch the child and took a hundred employees; What's the big crime of trapping your father in injustice? I want to solve the mystery of my father. Alas, North City sold house bugs out of the house, and West City reported three or five! "Cruel feudal exploitation and oppression shocked and resented people. In addition, his poems vividly depict beautiful mountains and rural scenery, reflecting the philosophy and interest of life. For example, "Idle Sigh": "The rain is longer than Sang Ma, and the sunshine is full of green fields. Walk outside the broad bean and in front of the butterfly cauliflower. Every family in Taiwan Province pays, and neighbors smoke everywhere. Cheers, like good words, are all dried with needles.
True poetry is influenced by Du Fu, Han Yu, Meng Jiao and Huang Tingjian, and he can "go to places he has never experienced before". It is difficult for people to learn from Du Fu and North Korea, instead of imitating them "(Chen Yan's Notes on Modern Poetry). His poems have a wide range of themes, including social reality, trivial matters of life, personal lyricism, description of landscapes, chanting of the ancients, chanting of epigraphy, talking about art, and all of them are involved. However, there are two artistic styles: strange and simple. His masterpieces, such as the so-called "Journey to the Cave with Uncle Li Xuelou in the first month", and Wu Gaishan's "Song of the inkstone", which left Cheng Chunhai as an assistant minister, stone, and twelfth lunar month, and sent his son to "Song of the Hanlu stele from the Jiaoba in Qijiang". According to Chen Yan, this kind of poetry is characterized by "amazing words and unfamiliar words", which is the most unfamiliar metaphysics school since Daoguang. In fact, it does not occupy the majority in Zheng's poems, nor does it represent its characteristics and achievements.
True poems were later inherited by Tongguang writers. Chen Yan's Shi Shi Yi Shi Hua said: "Recently, Shen Yi 'an (Ceng Zhi) and Chen Sanyuan (Li San) have their own schools. "Liang Qichao's Notes and Postscripts on the Poems of Nest Classics said:" Fan Bozi (contemporary) and Chen Sanyuan were handed down from generation to generation ". Therefore, Hu Xiansu of Tongguang School praised him as the first poet in Qing Dynasty (reading Zheng Zhenchao's Notes on Poetry in the Nest).
Liang Qichao, on the other hand, said, "Time has changed, and it is beyond the reach of writers in the Qing Dynasty to say that Ziyin's poems can open their own doors. The rest, my hometown Li Erqiao (Jane) stands out. Li Ge's words are unique but narrow. " He is also good at ancient prose, and Weng prefaces his anthology, calling it "quaint, with a large rate, such as the inscriptions of pre-Qin philosophers, bamboo slips of Ji tombs and inscriptions of Han Dynasty", and his lyrical works are "as sad as Gui Youguang". Li Shuchang's selection of his excellent works in A Dictionary of Continuing Ancient Chinese Characters shows his position in the minds of ancient Chinese writers of Tongcheng School in the later period. Zhengzhen also works in calligraphy and painting, learning to write in regular script, and participating in the brushwork of the two kings; The cursive script "competing for seats" is effective in Li Si and Li's seal script; I learned the Han tablet and Deng; The landscape paintings living in Dong Qichang are simple and scattered, and all have original styles.