Ye Shaoweng (葉紹翁; fl. 1200–1250) was a Southern Song dynasty Chinese poet from Longquan, in modern Lishui, Zhejiang province. He belonged to the Jianghu (Rivers and Lakes) School of poets, known for its unadorned style of poetry. He was an academician serving in the imperial archives in the capital Hangzhou, and authored a history on the reigns of the first four emperors of the Southern Song entitled Sicao Jianwen Lu (四朝見聞錄), covering the period of 1127–1224. He was a friend of the Neo-Confucian scholar Zhen Dexiu. Little else is known about his life.

Ye Shaoweng's most famous poem is Youyuan Buzhi (Visiting a Private Garden without Success):

:::遊園不值Visiting a Private Garden without Success

::應憐屐齒印蒼苔It must be because he hates clogs on his moss

::十扣柴扉久不開I knock ten times still his gate stayed closed

::春色滿園關不住but spring can't be kept locked in a garden

::一支紅杏出牆來a branch of red blossoms reached past the wall

The last couplet is often reused in later works, its meaning recast as a sexual innuendo. The African-American author Richard Wright wrote two haikus which bear close resemblance to Ye's poem.

葉紹翁（1194年? - ?），字嗣宗，號靖逸，處州龍泉人。南宋著名詩人。

祖父為李穎士。葉紹翁的生卒年皆不詳。自小因家道中落，被李穎士過繼給處州龍泉（今浙江麗水）的好友葉篤之子葉陽爾為孫。為葉陽爾之子葉昱的嗣子。紹翁屬江湖派詩人，多寫田園風光，富生活情趣，尤善七言絕句，代表作《遊園不值》有「春色滿園關不住，一枝紅杏出牆來」兩句，匠心獨具，富生活情趣。葉紹翁長期隱居錢塘西湖，與葛天民有往來。有《四朝聞見錄》、《靖逸小集》傳世。

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