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Mengjiao not only has a strong retro tendency, but also has a strong sense of adaptability. The deliberate chanting of suffering in the content of Meng Jiao's poems, as well as the painstaking efforts in conception, refining of words and sentences, have made him a model of "the master of strange and remote suffering". The "truth" side of Meng Jiao's personality makes his poems appear "corrected" and unfair; while the "good" side of his personality makes his poems exhibit "pure" beauty. The creation of "Han-Meng" couplets not only raised the couplet poetry style to a whole new level, but also influenced the creation of Meng Jiao and even the "Han-Meng Poetry School". Meng Jiao's poems have won a high reputation in the contemporary world, but the evaluations in later poetry commentators are mixed. Judging from the Tang poetry anthologies of the past dynasties, Meng Jiao's poems favored by poetry anthologists are mostly ancient and idle works, not the sour moans and groans that poetry commentators like to talk about. Later poets imitated Meng Jiao's poems, and the most attention was paid to its "archaic structure" formal characteristics.