Wáng Ruǎn 王阮 (Sòng, d. 1208)
Zì Nánqīng 南卿. Native of Déān 德安 (modern Jiāngxī). Death year 1208 per CBDB id 35278. Great-grandson of Wáng Sháo 王韶 (the HéHuáng kāituò / Huáng River-and-Mín River frontier-development general of the Northern-Sòng Xīníng era).
Jìnshì of Lóngxīng 1 (1163). Career: Zhī Fǔzhōu. Visited Zhū Xī at Kǎotíng in his youth, and later followed Zhū at Nánkāng — Zhū’s letter on Wáng’s later return is preserved as one of the principal Zhū Xī tributes (“cáiqì shùlüè above-others, but liúluò bùǒu”). On audience-summons, refused to be received by Hán Tuōzhòu; Hán retaliated with a sinecure-temple appointment, after which Wáng retired to Mt. Lúshān 廬山 and died there (1208 — the year of Hán’s own assassination).
His chief editorial achievement was the 40-juǎn recension of his friend Wáng Zhì’s 王質 Xuěshān jí KR4d0228 — also lost.
His poetic genealogy combines the Jiāngxī school (Hán Jū / Língyáng + Zēng Jǐ / Cháshān, per Liú Kèzhuāng’s bá) with the SūShì school (via Zhāng Xiàoxiáng 張孝祥, per Yuè Kē’s Tīngshǐ) — the Wànshānsì chànghé juéjù and Chóng guò Wànshānsì juéjù are the documented exchange-pieces with Zhāng Xiàoxiáng.
Surviving in Kanripo:
- KR4d0247 Yìfēng jí (1 juǎn, WYG; surviving fragment of his poetry; the prose collection is entirely lost; reconstructed from miscellaneous sources with Wú Yú’s 1243 preface).