The poetry created by working people reflect their personal feelings in production practices and social lives; they have profound feelings and rich flavor of life. They nourish the poetic world and exert a great influence on literati. Many major developments in literary history of China are closely related to certain folk literature. The influence of the folk songs in the Book of Songs to later generations is not necessarily mentioned again. In the Southern Dynasty, Wu Ballads and Xi Qu became popular, which influenced Bao Zhao, Tang Huixiu, and others who paid attention to folk literature; as a result, they facilitated the further development of five-character and seven-character poetry. Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi, and others appreciated the folk songs in Sichuan and Hubei region, hence imitate them in literary creation. As a result, they facilitated the forming of Ci-poetry. These examples indicate that knowledgeable literati should pay attention to absorbing the nutrition in folk literature and take advantages of them to push forward literary development.