Late-Yuán literatus of Shàngyuán 上元 (Jiāngníng, modern Nánjīng). Style-name Wénjǔ 文舉. Son of Yáng Gāngzhōng 楊剛中 (style-name Zhìxíng 志行, Tōngwēi xiānsheng; Hànlín dàizhì in the Dàdé era, author of the now-lost Shuāngyuè jí 霜月集) — a major Jiāngníng Yuán-era prose master. Yáng Hé’s own literary career began as a yuàn (clerk) of the JiāngZhè Mobile Secretariat; in the Zhìzhèng era he served as Xiūníng zhǔbù, then JiāngZhè rúxué tíjǔ, then Tàicháng bóshì. His teachers in his father’s circle included Chén Lǚ 陳旅, Yú Jí 虞集, and Yáng Wéizhēn 楊維楨 — each preserved among the prefaces to his Pèiyùzhāi lèigǎo 佩玉齋類藁 (KR4d0573). Yáng Wéizhēn explicitly traces Yáng Hé’s learning back to the Dǎojiāng Zhāng Dáshàn 導江張達善 lineage and thus to Zǐyáng (Zhū Xī). He had a brother Yáng Wénkāi 楊文開 also active in letters. The collection was cut at the end of the Zhìzhèng era. Yáng Hé died in the early Hóngwǔ era (Yáng Jī’s 楊基 dào Yáng Wénjǔ bóshì shī “Mourning Director Yáng Wénjǔ” speaks of an old white-haired Tàicháng official surviving the disorder and returning home). Since he had not accepted Míng salary, the Sìkù compilers retain him under Yuán biéjí.