His famous "Cold Food Observance" was a poem written when he was banished to Huangzhou: "Since I arrived in Huangzhou, I have already passed three Cold Food Observances .... The emperor's door is shut tight, and my ancestor's graves are ten thousand li away; I haven't the wherewithal even to cry; Dead ashes cannot be blown back to life."
著名的「寒食帖」，就是他被貶黃州時的作品，「自我來黃州，已過三寒食… … 君門深九重，墳墓在萬里，也擬哭途窮，死灰吹不起。」