Yang Shoujing (June 2, 1839 – January 9, 1915), a native of Lucheng Town, Yidu City, Hubei Province, was known as Kaike ( Kaike ) , renamed Shoujing , and in his later years called himself The ElderLy Man of Linsu. In the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, he was an outstanding historical geographer, a jinshi philologist, a catalogue versionist, a calligraphy artist, a quan numiologist, and a bibliophile.
Yang Shoujing was a scholar who studied diligently all his life, was knowledgeable and strong, and was famous for his proficiency in research, and was a university scholar who combined the study of public opinion, gold stones, calligraphy, spring coins, books, and epigraphic bibliography. He wrote as many as 83 kinds of works in his lifetime, and was known as "the first beginner in the late Qing Dynasty", and his representative work "Water Commentary" is a monument in the history of Li Studies.
