Who is the poet with the largest number of existing poems?

The poet with the largest number of existing poems is Lu You. Among the existing poems, Lu You has the most poems, reaching 9362. He alone accounts for almost three of the complete works of Song poetry.

Lu You not only collects books, but also engraves books. During the reign of Xiaozong in the Southern Song Dynasty, because the book Shi Shuo Xin Yu was burned before, Lu You reprinted it, and later printed Liu Bin Ji, and slightly completed the first 20 volumes of his own "Jiannan Poetry Draft", which was the earliest engraving of Lu You's poems.

After Lu You, his youngest son, Lu (the son of reading on a winter night), carved books more diligently than he did, successively carving Taoshan Collection and Erya Xinyi by his great-grandfather Lu Dian, Xunzi and Guanzi proofread by his grandfather Lu Dian, and Jiannan by his father Lu You, which is equivalent to their Lujia family having both a library and a publishing house.

I can imagine such a picture: Lu You is writing poems here, and his son is busy lettering there. This enabled Lu You's works to be preserved for the first time and to be greatly preserved. Compared with the Tang Dynasty poets who wrote poems on the wall and gave them as gifts and sang them, countless poems were lost, which was a sad scene. Lu is really lucky.

Of course, in addition to objective factors, Lu's poems also have their own reasons. Lu You was born in the early Song Dynasty. He experienced the shame of Jingkang. He was born in troubled times, but he insisted on writing all his life. According to the number of existing poems and his age, he writes one every two days on average. He also said "10,000 poems in 60 years" (meaning there are still missing poems).