Shao Yong's Selected Poems

Shao Yong (1011-1077), courtesy name Yaofu, was born in Fanyang (now Dashao Village, Zhuozhou, Hebei Province). When he was young, he moved to Hengzhang (now Linxian County, Henan Province) with his father Shao Gu. Kangjie Village), in the fourth year of Tiansheng (1026), when Shao Yong was 16 years old, he followed his father to Sumen Mountain in Gongcheng (now Baiquan Sumen Mountain in Huixian City, Henan Province) and lived here. Later, he studied "Hetu", "Luoshu" and Fuxi Bagua under Li Zhicai, and achieved great success in his studies. He also wrote "Huangji Jingshi", "Observation of Things Inside and Out", "Xiantian Tu", "Qiao Qiao Dui", "Yichuan Jingliang Collection", "Plum Blossom Poems", etc. In the seventh year of Jiayou's reign (1062), he moved to the west of Tiangong Temple in Luoyang and to the south of Tianjin Bridge, calling himself Mr. Anle. When traveling, you must take a small car and be pulled by one person. Song Renzong Jiayou and Song Shenzong Xiningchu were promoted twice, but both refused to go because of illness. He died of illness in the tenth year of Xining (1077) at the age of sixty-seven. Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty gave him the posthumous title Kangjie.