His prose is vigorous, concise, extraordinary and steep, mostly in the form of books, tables, notes, preface and so on, expounding political opinions and opinions, serving the reform and innovation. These articles have clear views and profound analysis on current political or social issues. Long articles are horizontal but not concise, short ones are broken but not detailed.
Wang Anshi's political essays, whether long or short, are rigorous in structure, well conceived, thorough in reasoning and concise in language. He also has a part of landscape travel prose, the bustling story of the city courtyard, which is concise, lively and labor-saving, just like Liu Zongyuan; A trip to Baochan Mountain not only records a trip, but also is very meaningful. The two are closely and naturally combined. Even if the abstract truth is vivid, it adds ideological depth to the specific notes and makes the layout flexible and tortuous.
Wang Anshi's poems can be roughly divided into early and late periods, with obvious differences in content and style. The early poems are good at reasoning and have obvious tendencies, involving many important and sharp societies. The problem noticed the sufferings of the lower classes and made an unfair voice for them.
As far as the poetic style is concerned, Anshi's ancient poems mostly use classics and arguments, but like Qu and Taoyuan Xing, they have novel ideas, rich feelings and rich imagination. Rhyme, on the other hand, is steady and appropriate, but sometimes it is inevitable to lose too much carving. Five musts and seven musts are especially famous. "Wang Banshan has many styles and is good at quatrains" (Hanting Poem) and "Gong Jing's quatrains are amazing in the world" (Boat House Poem). His poems have great influence on contemporary and later generations, and are called "Wang Gong Jing Style" (Yan Yu's Poems on Canglang).
From the literary point of view, Anshi's works have made outstanding achievements in poetry, prose and ci.
Wang Anshi advocated that poetry should be "useful to the world". When he entered the poetry circle in the Qing Dynasty, the characteristics of paying attention to reality and being argumentative in Song poetry had been formed, which met the requirements of Wang Anshi's poetry creation, so he quickly became an important member of poetry innovation in the late Qing Dynasty. Although Wang Anshi's epic is written about history, it is often aimed at reality.
Wang Anshi's poetry creation is divided into two periods. Although his later poems show the poet's stubborn character of "being blown by the east wind is better than being crushed to dust by the south stranger" ("Apricot Blossoms on the North Skin"), on the whole, his style is much more restrained than that of the previous period, often sad and leisurely, showing profound and simple interest, and at the same time, his form is becoming more and more refined and skilled. Wang Anshi's poems in his later years are called "Wang Gong Jing Ti" or "Half Mountain".
Wang Anshi is an important poet in the transition from Li Qing poetry led by Ouyang Xiu to Yuan You poetry led by Su Shi. Some features of the Song Dynasty, which was initially formed in Li Qing's poetry circle, have been further developed by Wang Anshi, with discussion as poetry, writing as poetry and learning as poetry, all of which are subtly reflected in Wang Anshi's poetry creation and inspired Su Shi and Huang Tingjian. In particular, the relationship between Wang Anshi and Jiangxi Poetry School headed by Huang Tingjian is an important clue to the development of Song poetry. Wang Anshi's admiration for Du Fu, his skill in word-building and duality, and his slim style all became the pioneers of Huang Tingjian and Jiangxi Poetry School.