Wang Anshi

In the fifth year of Tianxi of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty (1021), Wang Anshi was born in Linchuan (now Linchuan District, Fuzhou City). His father, Wang Yi, was then a judge of the Linchuan Army. Wang Anshi was smart since he was a child, loved reading, never forgetting anything, and wrote something down. After a little longer, I followed my father to travel around the country in official circles, get in touch with reality and experience the sufferings of the people. The article's arguments are profound and magnificent, and it is widely quoted, and it has the intention to change customs.

In the second year of Qingli (1042), Wang Anshi won the first prize. He has served successively as Yangzhou signing magistrate, Yinxian county magistrate, Shuzhou general magistrate, etc., with remarkable political achievements. In the second year of Xining (1069), he served as a member of the government, and the following year he served as prime minister and presided over the reform. Due to opposition from the conservative faction, the prime minister was dismissed in 1074. A year later, Song Shenzong was appointed again, dismissed from prime minister, and retired to Jiangning. In the first year of Yuanyou (1086), when the conservatives gained power, all the new laws were abolished, they died of illness in Zhongshan (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) and were presented as a gift to Taifu.

Looking at Wang Anshi's works from a literary perspective, he has made outstanding achievements in poetry, literature and poetry. The poetry innovation movement carried out in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty was strongly promoted by him, contributing to the elimination of the flashy customs that were popular in the early Song Dynasty. However, Wang Anshi's literary propositions place too much emphasis on "practicality" and often underestimate the role of artistic forms. Many of his poems and poems often express themselves as overly argumentation, thin and hard, and lack image and charm. There are also some poems that discuss Zen and Buddhist principles, which are obscure and dry, but do not lose the style of everyone.

Wang Anshi's poems can be roughly divided into two stages based on Wang Anshi's second strike in the ninth year of Xining (1076), with obvious differences in content and style. The early creation was mainly "singing when there is trouble", focusing on social reality and reflecting the pain of the people at the lower levels. The tendency was very clear and the style was straightforward. After retiring from politics in his later years, his mood became dull, and a large number of scenery poems and poems about objects replaced the position of the early political poetry. In his later period, he created "Work After Poverty", devoted himself to the pursuit of the art of poetry, re-refining meaning and rhetoric, writing words carefully, using words carefully, and being refined in antithesis. It was implicit and deep, deep and graceful. It became a unique style in the poetry world at that time with a style that enriched the spirit and far-reaching charm. It is known as the "Wang Jinggong Style".