Biography is a philosophical work, written by China's philosopher in Ming Dynasty and a representative of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, Wang Shouren (word Bo 'an), known as Mr. Yang Ming. This book records his quotations and letters about learning. The word "Chuan" comes from "Chuan Hu" in The Analects of Confucius.
Biography contains Wang Yangming's main philosophical thoughts and is an important material for studying Wang Yangming's thoughts and psychological development. The first volume was reviewed by Wang Yangming himself, and the letters in the middle volume were written by Wang Yangming in his later years. The second volume, though not audited by myself, elaborates his thoughts in his later years and records Wang Yangming's "four-sentence teaching".
The author of China in Classics.
Wang Shouren (1472 ~ 1529) was a philosopher, educator, strategist and writer in China in the Ming Dynasty. Boanzi, from Yuyao, Zhejiang. Because the building will remember Yangming Cave, it is called Yangming Zi, and the world is called Mr. Yangming.
After entering the Jinshi at the age of 28, he served as the director of the Yunnan Qing official department of the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of War, and took the Shandong Provincial Examination. Later, due to the impeachment of eunuch Liu Jin, he was promoted to the secretariat of Longchang, Guizhou.