Yang Xiong’s lexicalized allusions appeared at a rather high frequency in classical Chinese poems. Those allusions illustrated mostly Yang’s unusual talent and poor fate, solitude, and indifference and selfsatisfaction, fossilizing several implicationfixed images, such as Yang Xiong's residence and Fupoetry. In contrast, however, Yangs place in the Confucian history rose first and then fell. Before the North Song Dynasty, he enjoyed a high place, but after NeoConfucianism established by Cheng Ying and Zhu Xi became popular, Yangs fame suffered, belittled as the Rude Lord. In terms of Confucianism, the poetized Yang Xiong turned into a subject matter of solitude and selfsatisfaction or was portrayed as a radical ungraceful scholar with poor fate. However, the few works that dismissed Yang Xiong were not popular and could by no means affect the solid implications of Yang’s wellestablished lexicalized allusions.

Yang Xiong; poetic reception; Cheng Ying and Zhu Xi’s NeoConfucianism; Confucian history