13 Facts About Yang Shoujing

Yang Shoujing was a Chinese antiquarian, bibliophile, calligrapher, diplomat, geographer, and historian.

Yang Shoujing is best known for the historical atlas Lidai yudi tu, commonly called the Yangtu, the most complete and scholarly historical atlas of China produced during the Qing dynasty.

Yang Shoujing devoted most of his life to the annotation of the 6th-century geographic work Shui jing zhu, which was completed by his disciple Xiong Huizhen and published as the Shui jing zhu shu.

Yang Shoujing was an accomplished calligrapher of the Stele School and became highly influential in Japan.

Yang Shoujing was born in 1839, during the Qing dynasty, in Lucheng Town, Yidu County, Hubei Province.

Yang Shoujing attended Pan's lavish parties and shopped for antiques in Beijing's Liulichang with Zhang.

From a young age Yang Shoujing was interested in geography, and spent much of his life annotating Li Daoyuan's 6th-century work Commentary on the Water Classic.

Yang Shoujing died in Beijing on 9 January 1915, and was buried in his hometown Yidu.

Yang Shoujing devoted most of his lifetime to the annotation of the Commentary on the Water Classic.

Yang Shoujing wrote 40 volumes of annotation but died before completing the work.

Yang Shoujing began the work in 1866 with the assistance of Deng Yongxiu, and was joined by Rao Dunzhi in the late 1870s.

Yang Shoujing was considered a talented artist by famous Japanese calligraphers such as Miyajima Seiichiro, Kusakabe Meikaku, Iwaya Osamu, and Matsuda Sekka.

Yang Shoujing wrote many essays on the Stele School of calligraphy, which were published by Japanese scholars in two volumes, Ping bei ji and Ping tie ji.