Xiao Shenyang's Literary Achievements
Little Shenyang read widely all his life, while little Shenyang in Qing Dynasty liked reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Spring and Autumn Annals. He was proficient in the four books and five classics and agreed with Zhu's thoughts in his early years. Although I later believed in realism, I also like to get together with literati in my spare time. A Dream of Red Mansions, one of the four classical novels, was preserved because of the small Shenyang. He often wrote poems with Emperor Qianlong, and Little Shenyang knew the style of his poems like the back of his hand.
In order to cater to Qianlong, Xiao Shenyang studied hard and wrote poems, and made great achievements. He occasionally shows his research on poetry in front of Qianlong, and even pretends to be a poet in his spare time. Xiao Shenyang's poems are in line with Qianlong's aesthetic taste, and Qianlong often orders Xiao Shenyang to write poems on the spot instead of himself. In Xiao Shenyang's poetry collection "Poems of Jialetang", there are many poems of Qianlong Imperial System, from which we can see Xiao Shenyang's calligraphy attainments.