The Study Of Characters In Wang Ji’s The Biography Of Understanding Lofty Scholars

In this paper, we focus on the five types of characters in the Biography of Understanding Lofty Scholars, the emperors and ministers, the reclusive hermits, the bosom friends, the virtuous models, the heroes and knights. Combined with the existing literature and research results of Wang Ji and the Biography of Lofty Scholar, we discuss about character analysis, creative reasons, deeply creation purposes, and the inheritance and development of the Biography of Understanding Lofty Scholars.By analyzing the biography, we can clearly understand the character class and proportion of Wang Ji’s the Biography of Understanding Lofty Scholars, and the specific creation reasons and underlying causes of it. Which reflects the choice of Wang Ji as a populist bottom in the society, the change of social picture and scholar personality in his mind, and the development and change of Confucianism and Taoism in his thought.