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 Zhifeng New County, a prisoner in Guangdong and Guangxi, a retinue of the prince, a secretary supervisor, and awarded a bachelor's degree in the library, which made Luling County the founding of the country. In the second year of Jubilee (1206), Yang Wanli died of illness at the age of 80. Dr. Huo Guanglu, posthumous title "Wen Jie".
Yang Wanli wrote more than 20,000 poems in his life, and 4,200 works were handed down from generation to generation. He is regarded as a generation of poets. He used simple language, fresh and natural, full of humor, and created a "sincere style". Most of Yang Wanli's poems describe natural scenery and are good at it. He also has many chapters reflecting people's sufferings and expressing patriotic feelings. He is the author of Zhai Chengji and so on.