Wang Chong (27- about 97), whose name is Zhong Ren. People from Shangyu (now Shangyu, Zhejiang) in Huiji. A famous thinker and literary theorist in the Eastern Han Dynasty. When he was young, he was thirsty for knowledge, read widely, memorized by rote, taught himself, and became a great scholar who knew many schools of writing.

Wang Chong's masterpiece is Lun Heng. Lun Heng is a famous atheistic work in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is also an important work in the history of China's thought and literary criticism. There are 85 existing articles, among which "Invitation" has no book records. According to the author's account, the main purpose of writing a book is "emptiness" and "reality", and the content mainly expounds his views on nature, history and epistemology. Lun Heng criticized mysticism and secular superstition, as well as superstitious thoughts and behaviors such as fairy magic and divination time, and established the theory of natural vitality by empirical and reasoning methods, thus setting up a monument in the history of atheism in China. Wang Chong gained a lofty position in the history of China's thoughts because of Lun Heng.

Selected works of textbooks

"Ghost Book" (the first volume of the ninth grade textbook of China Publishing House)