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"Yang Wengong Tan Yuan" was dictated by Yang Yi of the Song Dynasty, recorded by Huang Jian, compiled by Song Xiang, and edited by Li Yumin. The author is highly knowledgeable and well-informed, and the recorded content is all-encompassing, focusing mainly on human affairs and poetry, as well as science and technology, religion, art, laws and regulations, economy, folk customs, etc. In particular, it contains a large number of Song poetry, which is of great reference value. This book was lost by the end of the Ming Dynasty. The compiler re-edited it based on "Shuo Yong", "Facts of the Song Dynasty", "Shi Jiyuan", "Zhenghe Materia Medica" and other books, and obtained a total of 234 articles and more than 70,000 words. "Houshan Tan Cong" was written by Chen Shidao of the Song Dynasty and edited by Li Weiguo. The six volumes of the book contain the most inscriptions on the historical figures of the Northern Song Dynasty. There are also many records on calligraphy and painting, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, water conservancy and farming, Buddhist Taoism and even anecdotes. The "Shiyuan Series" was used as the base, and other editions were used for the proofreading.