Abstract: There were many poetic academic schools during the period of Qianlong and Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty. Among them the School of Ingenious Poetry had a greater impact on poetic writing. In the Ingenious School, Sun Yuanxiang, Wang Tan, Shu Wei and Zhang Wentao were leading figures. Although Sun Yuanxiang had no formal views on the theory of poetry, spiritually he was closer to Yuan Mei than others. As to poetic writing, the content and mental stature of Sun Yuanxiang‘s poems might be not better than others’, but his techniques of expression in poems reflected the style of Ingenious School more representatively. On the other hand, Sun Yuanxiang had closer personal relations than others with Yuan Mei, who was the mainstay of the Ingenious School. Above all, Sun Yuanxiang should be a rearguard of the Ingenious School. However, many people do not recognize the value of Sun Yuanxiang’s poems yet due to various reasons.