Northern Song poet and prose writer styled Yuanzhi from Juye, thrice demoted and finally exiled to Huangzhou, author of the Xiaochu Ji.
Mural guide
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Wang Yucheng, courtesy name Yuanzhi, came from Juye and was a leading Northern Song writer. After the jinshi of 983 he rose from county registrar to Hanlin academician but was demoted three times for plain speaking, the last to Huangzhou in 998, which gave him the name Wang of Huangzhou. He died at Qizhou in 1001, aged 48. He followed Du Fu and Bai Juyi in verse and wrote plain prose; his Xiaochu Ji and the Huangzhou bamboo-tower essay are best known, and Ouyang Xiu admired him.
Wang Yucheng serves as Reminder of the Right and Remonstrator of the Left
Northern Song, Taizong to Zhenzong
Wang Yucheng was raised to jinshi in the eighth year of Taiping xingguo and made registrar of Chengwu. In the early Duangong years Taizong summoned him to an examination and raised him to Reminder of the Right and Historiographer; soon he was Remonstrator of the Left and edict drafter, and he presented the Ten Strategies for Resisting the Barbarians. He also submitted a memorial on five matters.
Wang Yucheng writes the Sanchu fu; the Xiaoxu collection
Northern Song
Sent out to govern Huangzhou, Wang Yucheng wrote the Sanchu fu to express his purpose. His works include the Xiaoxu collection in twenty juan, the Chengming collection in ten juan, the Jiyi in ten juan, and three juan of poems. He had risen to jinshi in the eighth year of Taiping xingguo and been made registrar of Chengwu.
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Song
Literature · Prose