Wang Yi (王沂) was a Yuan official. His courtesy name was Shilu (師魯). His place of origin is given as Zhending and Xiangyin. He died in the middle of the Zhizheng era.
Life
His father was Wang Zongmou (王宗某; 1257–1323).
After passing the jinshi examination in the second year of the Yanyou era (1315), he was recommended for appointment as Yingfeng Hanlin wenzi (應奉翰林文字). During the Zhishun era he served as a compiler in the Hanlin Academy and National History Office (翰林國史院國史編修官). His other offices included Hanlin compiler, Guozi boshi, and Hanlin daizhi. The Guozi post is also rendered as Guozixue boshi and Guozijian boshi. As Minister of Rites at the beginning of Zhizheng (1341), he took part in compiling the histories of Song, Liao, and Jin.
Works and literary activity
His works include *Yibin ji* (《伊濱集》); *Wang zhengshi shi* (《王徵士詩》) is also associated with his name. *Yibin ji* contains epitaphs for Shen Maoshi (沈茂寔), Zhang Fuchu (張復初), and Zhong Zhen (鍾震). It also includes tomb inscriptions (墓表) for Guo Tai (郭泰), Guo Shiwen (郭士文), and He Jude (賀據德), and biographies (行狀) for Hu Jingxian (胡景先), Zhang Yang (張楧), and Zhang Cheng (張誠).
He also wrote sacrificial texts, elegies, portrait inscriptions, school and Buddhist-temple records, as well as many postscripts to poetry and prose, farewell poems and prefaces, and commemorative inscriptions. He wrote prefaces for books by Wang Yuqing (王餘慶), Li Shihui (李士晦), Zhou Ziqiang (周自強), and Lu You (陸友), and supplied a postscript to Zhao Mengfu’s (趙孟頫) painting of a horse. He exchanged poems with Su Tianjue (蘇天爵), Zhang Weimin (張惟敏), and Liu Yongzhi (劉永之), and travelled with Yu Que (余闕). He also composed merit inscriptions for Wang Min (王敏), Lü Li (呂栗), and Kang Guoqi (康國器).
References
- CBDB Wang Yi (23) (28615)
- 搜韵 王沂 (39900)
- Wikidata Wang Yi (Q45414371)