As for the creation time of "Bodhisattva Man", Huang Tingjian of the Song Dynasty wrote in the preface to "Bodhisattva Man" (Half Smoke and Half Rain River Bridge): "Wang Jinggong built a new thatched cottage in the middle of the mountain, and used the Eight Merit Waters as a small harbor. It was built with stone as a bridge, which is a collection of sentences. "According to the fact that Huang Tingjian and Wang Anshi were at the same time and slightly later, the account must be well-founded and credible. It can be seen from this that the poem was written when the poet retired from the prime minister in his later years and lived in seclusion in Zhongshan Banshan Garden in Jiangning (now Nanjing).