Wang Anshi (102 1 year1February 81May 2, 0861day), a native of Linchuan (now Linchuan District, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province), was a famous thinker and thinker in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Character life:

? Li Qing two years (1042), Wang Anshi Jinshi. He has successively signed judges in Yangzhou, magistrate in Yinxian and judge in Zhou Shu, and achieved remarkable results. In the second year of Xining (1069), he served as a political commissar, met with the Prime Minister the following year and presided over the political reform. Because of the opposition of the old school, Xining went on strike for seven years (1074). A year later, Song Shenzong was put into use again and retired to Jiangning. In the first year of Yuan You (1086), the Conservative Party gained power and all the new laws were abolished. Yu Ran died in Zhongshan (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), and posthumous title was "Wen", so he was called Wang Wengong.

Wang Anshi devoted himself to the study of Confucian classics and wrote books, which was praised as "learning Confucianism", initiated "learning Gong Jing" and promoted the formation of the style of study in the Song Dynasty. Philosophically, the formation of the universe is explained by the theory of "five elements", which enriches and develops the simple materialism in ancient China; His philosophical proposition of "dividing the old from the new" pushed China's ancient dialectics to a new height.

Wang Anshi has made outstanding achievements in literature. His prose is clear, logical and persuasive, which gives full play to the practical functions of ancient Chinese prose. The article is concise, short and pithy, and ranks among the "eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". His poems are "thin but difficult to learn from Du Fu" and good at reasoning. In his later years, his poetic style was subtle, profound and simple, and he was unique in the poetic style of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was known as "Wang Ti" in the world. There are Wang Linchuan Collection and Linchuan Collection.