Wang Houzhi

Wang Houzhi

Wang Houzhi (1131-1204) was named Shun Bo and Fu Zhai. He is from Linchuan, Jiangxi Province. In the Southern Song Dynasty, he was a famous epigraphist, philologist, Neo Confucianist and bibliophile.

Personage introduction

First of all, he moved to Huangshan Town in Zhuji (now Zhejiang Province). Hou Zhi was born in a scholarly family. He was intelligent, studious and well read since he was a child. He is loyal and upright. In the 26th year of Shaoxing (1156), Gaozong was recommended to the Imperial College. Xiaozong Qiandao two years (1166) Jinshi. In the 12th year of Chunxi (1185), the capital of prison entered the Academy. In the 15th year, he was Secretary Lang and also the official of Cang Department (52-17 of Song Hui yao ji draft). In the 16th year, in addition to Huainan road transport judge (Southern Song Dynasty Pavilion continued record volume 8). Transfer two Zhejiang Road transfer judge. In the fifth year of emperor Guangzong's reign of Shaoxi (1194), he was released by Lin'an Prefecture.

Historical contribution

He is good at studying, thinking and studying, and has a good command of seal script. In his spare time, he made a deliberate search for the Yi wares of the three dynasties and stone rubbings of the Han and Tang Dynasties. "Kangxi Zhuji county annals" said it "accumulated books, a in the sea.". In and out of the right army "cocoon paper Jian'an tie" with. Every time you get a book and a tool, you must collate and collate it, examine and sign the title, examine its authenticity, pick up its defects and fallacies, and devote yourself to the study of inscriptions. Both he and Mi Fu were famous for their calligraphy and painting.

His works include Fu Zhai Jin Shi Lu, Fu Zhai Yin Pu, Zhong Ding Wen Shi, Kao Yi, archaeological seal, Han Jin seal atlas, inscriptions and postscripts on Shi Gu Wen of King Xuan of Zhou, Shi Gu Yin Shi, textual research on Chu Wen of King Hui of Qin, etc. Ningzong died in the fourth year of Jiatai, at the age of 74. He was buried beside Baolin temple in Baofengling (now in Huangshan Town). There are five biographies in Kuaiji Xuzhi. Wang Houzhi's works are highly praised by scholars of all ages. Quan Zuwang, a historian and litterateur of the Qing Dynasty, said in his reply to Linchuan's miscellaneous questions: "the study of Shunbo's stele. Today, it has been handed down to the world as the record of fuzhai stele. In Song Dynasty, the scholars of gold and stone, including ou, Liu, Zhao and Hong, were the first to be Shun Bo. In the preface of Ji Gu Yin Pu, Shen Mingchen of Ming Dynasty said: "there was no Yin Pu in ancient times, and the Pu began with Shun Bo, Wang Houzhi of Song Dynasty."