Yang Weizhen (1296- 1370) is from Zhuji. Taiding four years (AD 1327), Jinshi. Yin of Tiantai County was promoted by Hangzhou Siwu, and the general manager of Jiande Road was promoted. When the peasant uprising broke out at the end of Yuan Dynasty, Yang Weizhen took refuge in Fuchun River, but Zhang Shicheng refused to go again and again. After that, he lived in seclusion and built a garden in Songjiang. The sign on the door reads: "If you don't go downstairs, you are lazy; Forgive the old illness if you don't respond to the guests; If the guest asks the wrong question, forgive the silence of the past; Don't shy away from speaking, forgive the old pedant; If you don't give up drinking, you will go crazy. " So in Jiangnan, talents build doors, and tourists flow in an endless stream, full every day. He also traveled all over the mountains and rivers, wearing a Huayang towel and a feather coat, playing the flute on the boat or asking the waiter to sing. After drinking, he danced and thought he was a fairy. In the second year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, he was called to Beijing to discuss various etiquette norms. Please come back after the work is finished. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered officials to hold a banquet outside the west gate of Kyoto, and died soon after he came back.
Yang Weizhen has made great achievements in poetry, literature and opera, and has always been highly respected. Yang Weizhen, the leader of the poetry circle in Yuan Dynasty, dominated the literary world in Yuan Dynasty for more than 40 years because of his "title of poetry". His poems are exquisite, elegant and unique. He is good at Yuefu poetry, mostly taking historical events and myths and legends as themes. His poems are full of surprises and whimsy, and his "West Lake Zhi Zhu Ci" is popular and fresh, with many harmonies. He is the author of Collected Works of Dongweizi and Gu Yue Fu by Tieya.
Yang Weizhen's calligraphy, like his poems, pays attention to lyricism, especially his cursive works, which show unrestrained indulgence and lyricism. In his later years, cursive writing was bold and unconstrained, showing fantastic imagination and majestic spirit. Handed down from ancient times are Singing in the South of the City and Zhen Jing Temple Scroll.