Wáng Yí 王彝 (?–1374), zì Chángzōng 常宗, hào Guīwěizǐ 媯蜼子, native of Jiādìng 嘉定 (then in Sūzhōu prefecture, now Shànghǎi). His ancestors were Sìchuān 蜀 people of the Chén 陳 surname; his father served the Yuán as Education Officer of Kūnshān 崑山 and moved the family eastward to Jiādìng, where Yí grew up. Pupil of Mèng Mèngxún 孟夢恂 of Tiāntái, whose own teacher Jīn Lǚxiáng 金履祥 had carried forward Zhēn Déxiù 真德秀’s Wénzhāng zhèngzōng line of Zhūxī literary orthodoxy. Summoned in commoner’s robes in Hóngwǔ 2 (1369) to participate in the Yuán shǐ compilation, awarded gold and silks on completion, then drawn into the Hànlínyuàn; pleaded leave on grounds of his aged mother and styled himself Guīwěizǐ in retirement. Implicated together with Gāo Qǐ 高啟 in the Wèi Guān 魏觀 shàngliáng wén affair at Sūzhōu and executed in Hóngwǔ 7 (1374). His literary collection is KR4e0027 Wáng Chángzōng jí (originally Sānjìnzhāi gǎo 三近齋稿), recompiled in Hóngzhì by Dū Mù 都穆. Best known for the polemical essay Wényāo 文妖 attacking the Tiěyá 鐵崖 style of Yáng Wéizhēn 楊維楨, one of the two principal contemporary critiques of Yáng’s poetics. CBDB id 34379 records death 1374, fl. 1370; birth year unknown.