What kind of person is Wang Anshi?

Wang Anshi is a writer and politician. Wang Anshi is one of the eight great poets in Tang and Song Dynasties, and he has profound attainments in both poetry and prose. Most of his prose is narrative and serves for political reform.

His poetic style is completely different, with the boundary of attack. Most of his early poems are reasoning about the disadvantages of the times. Wang Anshi lingered in the mountains and rivers after the strike, which shows that most of his poems are landscape poems. As a politician, there are different views on him in history. The evaluation of him in feudal times was mainly negative. After seeing the world from China's perspective, there is a view that affirms his reform.

Wang Anshi's reform focuses on developing productive forces, which is consistent with the current development view. He believes that the state should not interfere too much in the economy. His thoughts are generally advanced, but there are some problems in the specific implementation methods of the reform, which eventually led to failure.

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When Wang Anshi was prime minister, Xiao Gongzi, a relative of his daughter-in-law's family, went to visit Wang Anshi when he arrived in Beijing. Wang Anshi invited him to dinner. The next day, Xiao's son dressed up and went there, expecting Wang Anshi to give him a banquet.

After noon, he felt very hungry, but he dared not leave like this. After a long time, Wang Anshi ordered to sit down, and the food was not ready. Xiao Gongzi felt very strange in his heart. After drinking a few glasses of wine, he served two Hu cakes and four pieces of meat. After dinner, he only put a vegetable soup beside him.

Xiao's son is very arrogant. He only eats a small part of the Hu cake, leaving all the edges. Wang Anshi ate the rest of the cake. That Xiao Gongzi left in shame.

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