Abstract: Yang Shoujing had four great opportunities in his life,all of which revealed the important role of literati friendship in the academic and cultural activities of the Qing Dynasty.Its essence was the blending relationship between cultural and power network.In traditional Chinese literati culture,literati elegance and learning are important cultural capital and the core content of friendship.The "ancient-loving" academic atmosphere in the Qing Dynasty promoted the inheritance and innovation of excellent Chinese traditional culture to a certain extent,but reduced the literati's attention and thinking about realistic social problems and weakened the spirit that "articles are written for times" and that "(literati) should be the first to worry about the affairs of the state" in the scholar-official culture.Driven by the needs of culture and power,the study of epigraphy,which has a variety of functions such as collection,scholarship,literati communication media and elegant bribery,shows a trend of abnormal prosperity,epigraphy has become a cultural capital for Yang et al to enter the mainstream cultural circle and expand his social contact.In this regard,dialectically paying attention to the circle of literati travel is an important way to deepen the study of academic social history and artistic social history.

Key words: Yang Shoujing, epigraphy, calligraphy, friendship, literati, cultural capital