Yuán-period 元 Shàngshū commentator, native of Méipǔ 梅浦 in Jí’ān fǔ 吉安府 (modern Jiāngxī). Zì Lìdà 立大. Lifedates unrecorded; CBDB id 101084 has no firm dates. Floruit defensibly c. 1280–1320.
Career: as a young scholar he served as shānzhǎng 山長 (head) of the Gànzhōulù Xiānxián shūyuàn 贛州路先賢書院 in Jiāngxī. In Dàdé 2 / 1298, the regional Education Commissioner (xiànshǐ 憲使) Zāng Mèngjiě 臧夢解 (CBDB id 110275, d. 1335) of Yín 鄞 transmitted his Shàngshū zuǎn zhuàn 尚書纂傳 (KR1b0034) to the Yuán court via the Táishěng 臺省, leading to his appointment as Línjiānglù Rúxué jiàoshòu 臨江路儒學教授 (“Education Officer at Línjiāng Circuit”). His son Wáng Zhèn 王振 cut and printed the Zuǎn zhuàn during the Zhìdà 至大 (1308–1311) era — the recension subsequently transmitted into the Sìkù.
He worked in conscious continuity with the post-Zhū-Xī orthodoxy: the Sìkù tíyào on the Zuǎn zhuàn characterizes him as having taken Zhū Xī as the chief authority and Zhēn Déxiù 真德秀 (1178–1235) as the principal supplementary voice — Zhēn Déxiù’s Shū shuō jīng yì 書說精義 plus relevant materials from the Dà xué yǎn yì 大學衍義. Where Zhū Xī had no recorded opinion, he defaults to Cài Shěn (KR1b0017). His own preface declares the project’s aim as “to be in agreement with the two masters [Zhū and Zhēn], not allowing private opinion.” The work took fifteen years, in collaboration with his fellow-villager Péng Yìfū 彭翼夫.
The Sìkù compilers’ substantive verdict identifies him as strong on yìlǐ 義理 and weak on míngwù xùngǔ 名物訓詁 — comparable in this respect to Wáng Yuánjié 王元杰’s Chūnqiū yàn yì 春秋讞義 (Sìkù Chūnqiū lèi).