杨亿

Yang Yi is an author known for his poetry and prose from the Northern Song period; details of his life and official career are relatively limited in publicly available sources, and his writings can currently be understood only through the works held in this collection. Four works are attributed to Yang Yi here, including the Xikun Collection of Responsorial Poems (Xikun Chou Chang Ji), Yang Wengong's Talks from the Garden, with Houshan's Talks from the Garden, and Yang Wengong's Talks. The Xikun Collection reflects his participation in poetic exchanges and responsorial composition, with attention to diction and literary allusion and a pursuit of elegant, polished style, making it representative in the field of literary appreciation. Yang Wengong's Talks belongs to the category of notes and miscellaneous records, containing observations, anecdotes, and discussions that can be read alongside categories such as Eastern philosophy. Overall, Yang Yi's writings combine poetic exchange and miscellaneous notes, offering useful material for understanding literati interaction and note-writing in the early Song.