"The Quitting Opium song," for instance, makes a vivid description of the haggard condition of a user: "The chest feels like a water jug and the two arms like iron hammers." And there is the "August Seventh Flood Song" that details the hardship caused by natural disaster.
像是「戒鴉片歌」，傳神地形容出吃鴉片者「胸膛像水缸，雙手如鐵鎚」的枯槁模樣；而「八七水災歌」則細述大災難的慘狀。