Abstract: The learned and famous Neo-Confucian scholar Xue Xuan was the first Confucian who could take the sacrifice in Confucian temple and was given the high praise of the first pure Confucian in the Ming Dynasty. This pure Neo-Confucian scholar was not only the model disciple of the Confucian school of philosophy of the Song dynasty, but also an emotive poet. Xue Xuan thought the poem as the secondary thing to spend redundant energy, but the poem became an indispensable part of his life because of his poetry stricken by the scenery, and the things. Whether visiting famous mountains, places of interest or responding with colleagues and friends, Xue Xuan always composed some poems. This Neo-Confucian scholar placed his emotion and ideal on the natural and righteous poems’ world that recorded the course of his mentality.

Key words: Neo-Confucian, the scholar of the Ming Dynasty, Xue Xuan, poem