Yang Shoujing (1839~1915) was a native of Lucheng Town, Yidu City, Hubei Province, born on June 2, 1839, to a merchant family in Lucheng, Yidu. In the first year of Tongzhi (1862), Yang Shoujing was admitted to the first year of Tongzhi (1862), and in the fourth year of Tongzhi (1865), he was admitted to the Jingshan Palace to study and teach, and in 1874 he was admitted to the Transcription of the National History Museum. From 1880 to 1884, he served as an attaché of envoys stationed in Japan, and after returning to China, he successively served as the head of the Huanggang Teachings, the Lianghu Academy, and the chief teacher of the Qincheng (later Cungu) Academy. In 1909, he was appointed as an advisor to the Ministry of Ceremonies, and the following year he was also hired as a consultant of the Hubei Tongzhi Bureau. On January 9, 1915, Yang died without illness and died in Beijing at the age of 76. After Yang Shoujing's death, the Republic of China government sent a special car to escort the coffin back to Yidu and bury the Yidu Dragon Nest.
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Yang Shoujing is recognized as a famous historical geographer in the academic circles. He used his life's energy and knowledge to study the "Water Classic" and "Water Classic" with various methods such as jinshi archaeology, which lasted for forty or fifty years. He has written a representative work of "Water Economics Commentary", compiled and painted "Map of the History of Public Opinion in Past Dynasties", "Dangerous Map of the Evolution of Public Opinion in Past Dynasties" and "Illustration of Water Economy".
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Yang Shoujing was a epigrapher and had a deep knowledge of catalogue editions. He is the author of "Hubei Jinshizhi", "Japanese Jinshizhi", "Wangdang Jinshilu" and so on. The editors include "Huanyu Zhenshi Map" and "Three Continuations of Huanyu Visiting Monuments". In terms of catalogue editions, his works include "Visiting Books in Japan", "Ancient Yi Series" and so on, which are highly valued by scholars and celebrities at that time, and are still rare masterpieces.
Yang Shoujing's calligraphy and calligraphy are well-known at home and abroad, and he is long in kai, xing, li, seal, and cursive, and has written many monographs on books such as "Tracing the Origin of Kaifa", "Commentary on Steles", "Commentaries on Posts", and "Xueshu Shuyan". During his time in Japan, Yang Shoujing shocked Dongying with his superb Chinese calligraphy and impressed many calligraphers. He was also invited to lecture, exchange calligraphy, and include disciples, which at that time included a "chongyang wind" in the Japanese calligraphy circle, and its influence still exists today.
Yang Shoujing can be called a great bibliophile in modern times. Among the hundreds of thousands of books collected, there are tens of thousands of volumes of orphan books at home and abroad, and there are thousands of books in the Song edition. In order to preserve the national cultural and ancient books, he spent many years on food and clothing, or "with the easy to have" in exchange, especially during the Japanese period, a large number of ancient Books of Hanshu were purchased, and tens of thousands of volumes of books were "Suiying Basket Baskets" and shipped back to the motherland. Among them, there are very precious manuscripts of the Six Dynasties and Tang Dynasty, and there are rare ancient books of the Song and Yuan dynasties, which have made great contributions to the preservation of the national cultural heritage of the motherland.