From "On Balance and Practice": "The unknowable, though small, is not easy to learn from the heart. Therefore, smart people can't learn without asking. "

What you can't know, no matter how small, is not easy to understand even if you study it with your heart and ask others. Therefore, even smart people will not achieve anything without studying, nor will they know without consulting others.

Wang Chong (AD 27-AD 97) was born in Huiji, Shangyu (present-day Zhejiang), with a heavy ancestral home. Eastern Han thinkers and literary critics.

Wang Chong was born in a "small family". He is smart, diligent, well-read and good at arguing. Later, he left his hometown to study in Imperial College and studied under Ban Biao. I often travel to Luoyang to study, study hard by heart, read from memory and read hundreds of books. The people are not greedy for money and do not admire senior officials.

He used to be a county official and a state official, but was demoted because of his political disagreement with his superiors. After retirement, he returned home and concentrated on writing. In his later years, Emperor Zhang Han sent a letter to recruit new soldiers. In the first year of Emperor Hanyong, he died at home.

Wang Chong is an important successor and developer of Taoism in Han Dynasty. His thought aims at the natural inaction of Taoism, takes "heaven" as the highest category of the concept of heaven, and takes "qi" as the core category, which constitutes a huge universe generation model, which is in opposition to the theory of induction between man and nature.

Wang Chong's masterpiece Lun Heng, with 85 articles and more than 200,000 words, expounded the similarities and differences of all things and corrected people's doubts at that time. This is an important ideological work in the history of China.