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While it is difficult to reconcile Yang Mu's oeuvre, including poetry, translation and editing, from a single approach, this article attempts to explore elements of Confucian humanism and non-complacent consciousness across Yang Mu's poetry and prose. By ducumenting the two seminal ideological strands, this article traces the development and demonstrations of such trains of thought in Yang's works. The aesthetics of Confucian humanism and non-complacent consciousness represent the significant foundation of Yang Mu's creations, through which his observation of the present world is emeshed with profound humanistic spirit. Although Yang Mu's views and philosophy are inspired by Chen Shixiang and Xu Fuguan, he focuses more on the outward expression of internal emotions after drastic shifts in the external world. Through examining the tradition of lyrical expressions and the notion of worldliness from New Confucianism, this article investigates the fundaments for Yang Mu to elucidate worldly experience by means of his poetry. This article does not seek to construct a universal interpretive framework of Yang Mu's poetry. Rather, it highlights Yang Mu's real-life encounters and real-world interactions, and demonstrates that the profound expressions of sentiment and non-complacency in Yang Mu's poetry exhibit his concerns for the order of life and the value of ethics within the scope of the collective human life experience.