Wáng Píng 王蘋, Sòng-period (period unspecified — Northern or Southern Sòng) court official; Zhùzuòláng 著作郎 (Editorial Director) at the imperial library; 8th-generation descendant of the late-Táng jìnshì and rhapsodist Wáng Qǐ 王棨 (= KR4c0084). While serving at the imperial library, Wáng Píng located Wáng Qǐ’s shěngtí shī (examination-style verse) — 21 pieces — and transcribed them as an appendix to the Línjiǎo jí (= KR4c0084).
The recovery is small but bibliographically significant: it preserves an otherwise-lost component of late-Táng examination-verse practice, and it documents the late-Northern-Sòng / Southern-Sòng descendant-driven recovery efforts that produced many of the preserved biéjí of minor late-Táng authors. CBDB has no matching entry.
name: 王蘋 pinyinName: Wáng Píng alternateNames: [信伯, Xìnbó, 著作] dynasty: 宋 birthDate: 1082 deathDate: 1153 cbdbId: 7381 dilaAuthorityId: created: 2026-05-06 updated: 2026-05-06
Wáng Píng 王蘋 (1082–1153), zì Xìnbó 信伯, native of MǐnYuè 閩越 region (Fújiàn), settled at Zhènzé 震澤 (Tàihú lakeshore, Sūzhōu region). Pupil of Yáng Shí 楊時 KR4d0119, Yǐn Tūn 尹焞 尹焞, and Zhū Zhèn 朱震 — i.e. of the principal HéLuò (= Chéng Yí) lineage masters of his generation. Recommended by Píngjiāng prefect Sūn Yòu 孫祐 (or per Chén Zhènsūn KR3h0011 by Zhào Dǐng 趙鼎 = Zhōngjiǎn) under Gāozōng for déxíng (virtue-and-conduct); called-and-interviewed; granted jìnshì chūshēn; appointed Bìshūshěng zhèngzì 秘書省正字, eventually rising to Zhùzuò zuǒláng 著作佐郎 (hence the collection-title 著作集 Zhùzuò jí).
Hated by Qín Guì 秦檜; on a peripheral relative’s punishment, qiānlián wénzhì duóguān (drawn-into-the-affair, stripped of office).
Notable for the famous Gāozōng-audience response on imperial heart-mind: Yáo, Shùn, Yǔ, Tāng, Wén, Wǔ, Zhōugōng, Kǒngzǐ chuánshòu zhě yīxīn yě; xīn zhě yī rén zhī xīn yě, guǎngdà xībèi, wànshàn wúyín; rénzhǔ gǒu néng tuī zhī, jǔ ér cuò zhī ěr (what Yáo, Shùn, Yǔ, Tāng, Wén, Wǔ, Zhōugōng, and Confucius transmitted is one-mind; mind is the mind of one person; broad-and-comprehensive, ten-thousand-virtues without-bound; if the human-ruler can extend it, raise-and-place-it, that’s all). Gāozōng accordingly classified him as tōngrú (penetrating Confucian) and granted jìnshì chūshēn. The argument is a foundational early-Southern-Sòng xīnxué statement.
CBDB id 7381 confirms 1082–1153. The Sòng Dàoxué contemporaries Yáng Shí, Yǐn Tūn, and Zhū Zhèn all praised Wáng Píng.
His collection is Wáng zhùzuò jí 王著作集 KR4d0185 in 8 juǎn — compiled in the Míng Hóngzhì (1488–1505) by Wáng Píng’s tenth-generation descendant Wáng Guàn 王觀 from family papers. Originally 4 juǎn per Chén Zhènsūn KR3h0011 (cut by his great-grandson Wáng Sīwén 王思文 in Bǎoyòu, with preface by Lú Yuè 盧鉞). The Míng Hóngzhì expansion is heavily padded with fùlù (image-encomia, colophons, pupil notes); the actual surviving Wáng corpus is barely 1 juǎn.