1. Wang Shouren is not a direct descendant of Wang Xizhi but only has a kinship relationship.
Two sets of Wang Shouren's genealogy - "Yunnan Daxi Wang Family Genealogy" and "Daxi Wang Family Genealogy" were discovered (see picture), which provides the best evidence to prove that Wang Shouren is not a direct descendant of Wang Xizhi. important basis. According to the "Daxi Wang Family Genealogy", Wang Shouren's ancestral home is Shangyu, and he is the "distinguished grandson" of Wang Xizhitang's uncle, Wang Dao, the prime minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. According to records in the genealogy, Zeyuan Gong, the twenty-sixth generation grandson of Wang Dao, moved from Shan (today's Shengzhou) to the Daxi area of ??Yunnan, and multiplied for generations to form the "King of Shengfan (Village) Ten Miles". Wang Shouren was Wang Dao's 40th generation grandson. In addition, according to the records in "Wang Family Genealogy (Yongsitang)", Wang Dao is indeed Wang Xizhitang's uncle.
2. Introduction:
1. Wang Xizhi (303-361, 321-379), courtesy name Yishao, Han nationality, a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with " Known as the "Sage of Calligraphy". Langya was born in Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong), and later moved to Shanyin, Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), and lived in seclusion in Jinting, Shan County in his later years. He successively served as secretary Ying, general Ningyuan, governor of Jiangzhou, and later as internal history of Kuaiji, leading the right general. His calligraphy is good at Li, Cao, Kai, Xing and other styles. He studies the styles carefully, imitates them with his heart and hands, draws on the strengths of others, prepares various styles, and cultivates them in one furnace. He breaks away from the writing style of Han and Wei Dynasties and becomes his own style with far-reaching influence. The style is peaceful and natural, the writing style is euphemistic and subtle, and it is beautiful and graceful. His representative work "Lanting Preface" is known as "the best running script in the world". In the history of calligraphy, he and his son Wang Xianzhi are collectively known as the "Two Kings".
2. Wang Shouren (October 31, 1472 - January 9, 1529), Han nationality, his childhood name was Yun, his courtesy name was Bo'an, and his nickname was Yangming. A native of Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province (now part of Yuyao, Ningbo), he named himself Yangmingzi because he once built a house in Yangming Cave in Kuaiji Mountain. Scholars called him Mr. Yangming, also known as Wang Yangming.
A famous thinker, writer, philosopher and military strategist in the Ming Dynasty. He was the master of Lu Wang's philosophy and was proficient in Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. In the twelfth year of Hongzhi (1499), he was a Jinshi. He successively served as chief of the Ministry of Justice, Longchang Yicheng of Guizhou, magistrate of Luling, censor of Youqiandu, governor of Southern Jiangxi, and governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. In his later years, he served as Shangshu of the Ministry of War in Nanjing and Zuoyuan of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Du censor. For his military service in quelling the Chenhao Rebellion, he was granted the title of Xinjian Bo. During the Longqing period, he was posthumously awarded the title of Xinjian Marquis. He was given the posthumous title Wencheng, so later generations also called him Duke Wencheng.