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The life of Wang Yangming, the great wise man of the Ming Dynasty, was a life of pursuing the great wisdom of life, a life of successfully applying the great wisdom of life, a life of learning to be a sage, a life of becoming a sage, a life of establishing virtue, meritorious service and reputation. The long historical biographical novel "Wang Yangming" has a total of about 1.08 Million words and is divided into three parts: "Learning to Be a Sage", "Longchang Enlightenment" and "My Heart and Conscience". It starts from Wang Yangming's birth in Yuyao, Zhejiang, and ends with his death at the age of fifty-eight in Qinglongpu, Dayu, Jiangxi. The book is based on Wang Yangming's genealogy compiled by Wang Yangming's direct disciple Qian Dehong and others, as well as the poems, memorials, articles and other materials provided in "The Complete Works of Wang Yangming", with reference to a variety of historical books and various research materials, and combined with the author's Confucian and Buddhist practice. With the core of seeking and applying the great wisdom of life, the book attempts to describe the life of Wang Yangming as a thinker, military strategist, politician and poet.