In the 24th year of Shaoxing (1 154), Yang Wanli was a scholar and worked in Song Gaozong, Xiaozong, Guangzong and Ningzong successively. He used to be a doctor in Guo Zi, a prisoner in Guangdong, a retinue of the Prince, a secretary supervisor, and a bachelor in Mo Bao Pavilion, and was appointed as the founder of Luling County. In the second year of Jubilee (1206), Yang Wanli died of illness at the age of 80. Dr. Huo Guanglu, posthumous title "Wen Jie".
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Yang Wanli devoted himself to writing all his life. According to legend, there are more than 20,000 poems, and there are 4,200 existing poems. The whole poem 133 volumes is called Cheng Zhai Ji (including ten kinds of poems and essays of various styles), which still exists today. Yang Wenjie's poetry has forty-two volumes.
There is also a book, Zhai Cheng Shi Hua, which is not devoted to poetry, but also has some literary theories. His poems are famous for Wuxi Fu and Hai Fu. There are only 15 poems written today, which are fresh and interesting, quite similar to his poems.
Yang Wanli is also good at the study of the Book of Changes, and has written 20 volumes of the Book of Changes of Cheng Zhai, which has been criticized by scholars.
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