Who is the author of Saint Amethyst?

Wang Yinglin

Wang Yinglin? (1223~ 1296) is a famous scholar, educator and politician in the southern song dynasty. The word "Hou Bo",No. Shen Ning lay man,No. Houzhai. A native of Yinxian County (now Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province). He is knowledgeable, versatile, studied under Zhu, dabbled in hundreds of classics, history, astronomy and geography, was familiar with systematic anecdotes and was good at textual research.

After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, he lived in seclusion in the countryside, closed his doors and thanked guests, and wrote books. Handwritten calligraphy includes "writing books" and so on. He has written Saint Amethyst, Moon Hee who is sleepy in school, Zhu Zhu in Primary School, Yu Hai, Answering as a Mirror, Shen Ningji, Textual Research on Poetic Geography, etc.

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Wang Yinglin lived in seclusion for 20 years. In all his works, he only wrote Jiazi, not titles, to show his unyielding obedience to the Yuan Dynasty. He wrote a lot in his life, including more than 600 volumes such as Moon Hee, Yu Hai, Shi Kao, Han Zhi Kao Bian, Yu Tang Lei Zi and Shen Ning Ji. But the most famous is Saint Amethyst, which he probably never dreamed of.

In his later years, in order to educate his children to study, Wang Yinglin compiled a Three-Character Classic which integrated the essence of China culture. He is a great scholar who knows everything from ancient times to the present. Everyone wrote this "three-character Song formula" with ease, which is of course extraordinary.

His works are very learned and of high academic value, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty that people began to pay attention to them. Among them, Yuhai is an encyclopedic work, which was compiled for him to prepare for the exam of erudition and macro words. Moon Hee is a notebook work, which brings together many experiences and achievements of Confucian classics and historical research. Han Zhikao is a historical work. General Understanding of Tongjian Geography is a work of historical geography. He is the author of Saint Amethyst, a famous children's enlightenment book.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Yinglin