Abstract: Wang Yuan was an important disciple of Yan-Li school, and an advocate of the statecraft study style of the early Qing. As an adherent of the Ming, there was a close connection between Wang Yuan’s friendships and the formation of his scholarship. Wang Yuan’s life time experience of making friends was the epitome of the experience of a Ming loyalist’s life in the early Qing, and reflected the social and political conditions of the time as well. The development and changes of Wang Yuan’s scholarship presented the trend of the statecraft study style in the early Qing.