Abstract: YUAN Wenkui was the famous poets on Yunnan in Qing Dynasty. He was borned in a scholarly family of Baoshan, Who selected the road of imperial examination, but try not to be admitted. In Beijing, He serviced in the GuanGe. Since then, he was assigned an official in Ganshan. Five years later, he returned to Yunnan. He made friends widely, not only friendly to WANG Chang, TU Shen and TAN Cui who were the officers, but also closely related to the famous scribes in Yunnan, such as QIAN Feng, SHI Fan and LIU Dashen. In order to raise the ransom for the satrap called CHEN Yunyan who was in trouble, YUAN Wenkui travelled in Jiangzhe in old age. Along the way, he made new friends. His contribution to life was the largest poetry's compilation of Southern of Yunnan. The outline of YUAN Wenkui's life story, will present a vivid case for the Yunnan literature history of Qing Dynasty.