Wang Anshi is very fond of the poem "The cicada is quiet in the forest, and Tonamiyama is more quiet", and he changed it to "Sitting on the eaves all day, a bird is not singing, and the mountain is more quiet" in his own Poem. Huang Tingjian evaluated his change as turning gold into iron. From a philosophical point of view, this is because he ignored the unity of opposites between movement and stillness.
Wang Anshi (December 19, 121-May 21, 186), whose name was Jiefu, was named Mid-Levels. Linchuan, Fuzhou (now Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province). China was a statesman, writer, thinker and reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the second year of Qingli (142), Wang Anshi was a scholar, and successively served as a judge in Yangzhou, a magistrate in Yinxian and a judge in Shuzhou, with remarkable achievements.
In the last years of Song Renzong, he wrote A Book on the Words of Emperor Renzong, which called for a comprehensive reform of statutes since the early Song Dynasty, but it was not adopted. After Song Shenzong acceded to the throne, he became a bachelor of Hanlin, went to "Nothing happened in this dynasty for a hundred years", and continued to expound his proposition of political reform, which won the appreciation of Shenzong. In the second year of Xining (169), he was promoted to participate in political affairs and presided over the political reform.
We have successively formulated the Law of Average Transportation, Young Crop Law, Farmland Water Conservancy Law, Exemption Law, Market Easy Law, Square Field Average Tax Law, Baojia Law, Horse Protection Law, General Military Law, etc. The following year, he paid homage to the prime minister, vigorously promoted reforms, and actively promoted the opening of Xihe River. In the early days of the political reform, Shenzong listened to Wang Anshi. However, there are many problems in the implementation of the new law, which leads to a considerable momentum of opponents and divisions within the reform school.
in the seventh year of Xining (174), Wang Anshi was dismissed. A year later, it was put into use again by Shenzong, and then it was decided to Jiangning because of the differences between the monarch and the minister in political reform. Tired of being named Jing Guogong. In the first year of Yuanyou (186), the conservatives gained power and all the new laws were abolished. Wang Anshi died of a sudden illness in Zhongshan at the age of 66. Tired to a teacher, Shu Wang, posthumous title, known as Wang Wengong.
Main influence
Looking at Wang Anshi's works from a literary perspective, he has made outstanding achievements in poetry, prose and ci. The poetry innovation movement in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty was strongly promoted by him, which made a contribution to sweeping away the flashy afterglow that was all the rage in the early Song Dynasty.
However, Wang Anshi's literary ideas put too much emphasis on practicality and often underestimated the role of art forms. Many of his poems often show that the argument and reasoning elements are too heavy, thin and hard, and lack of image and charm. There are also some poems that talk about Buddhism and Buddhism, which are obscure and dry, but they do not lose everyone's demeanor.