Yang Shen (December 8, 1488 - August 8, 1559), whose courtesy name was Yongxiu, whose initial names were Yuexi and Sheng'an, also known as Yishi, Bonanshanren, etc., Was a native of Xindu, Sichuan (now Xindu District, Chengdu). He was a famous writer in the Ming Dynasty, the first of the three talented men in the Ming Dynasty, and the son of Yang Tinghe. He participated in the compilation of "Records of Wuzong". In the third year of Jiajing (1524), he was involved in the "Great Ceremony Discussion" incident, which angered Shizong. He was dismissed from office and relegated to Yongchang Guards in Yunnan. When he was in southern Yunnan, he led his slaves to help quell the rebellions of Anquan in Xundian and Fengchaowen in Wuding. After that, although he traveled back and forth to Sichuan, Yunnan and other places, he still ended up in Yongchang Guard. In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing (1559), he died in the garrison at the age of seventy-two. During the reign of Muzong of the Ming Dynasty, he was posthumously given the title of Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, and during the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, he was given the posthumous title of "Wen Xian". He wrote more than 400 kinds of works, covering classics, history and local chronicles, astronomy and geography, epigraphy, calligraphy and painting, music and drama, religious language, folk customs, etc., Which were compiled by later generations into the "Sheng'an Collection".
