1200–1250) was a Southern Song dynasty Chinese poet from Longquan, in modern Lishui, Zhejiang province.
[1] He belonged to the Jianghu (Rivers and Lakes) School of poets, known for its unadorned style of poetry.
[1] He was an academician serving in the imperial archives in the capital Hangzhou,[1] and authored a history on the reigns of the first four emperors of the Southern Song entitled Sicao Jianwen Lu (四朝見聞錄), covering the period of 1127–1224.
[1] Ye Shaoweng's most famous poem is Youyuan Buzhi (Visiting a Private Garden without Success): The last couplet is often reused in later works, its meaning recast as a sexual innuendo.
[3] The African-American author Richard Wright wrote two haikus which bear close resemblance to Ye's poem.