"In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people", the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi mentioned in this poem, are the two most famous rich families in ancient China, that is, the Wang family and the Xie family in Wuyi Lane in Jinling City, and the Wang family can be called the Wang family of Langya, and the famous book Saint Wang Xizhi is from this family.
Since its birth, the Langya Wang clan has flourished for thousands of years, a total of 92 prime ministers, 36 empresses and 36 horses were born, which can be called the strongest magnate in ancient China, which seems to be contrary to the teachings of Yasheng "Gentleman's Zeze, Five Generations and Beheading", which makes people can't help but have a very strong curiosity, why does this family prosper for a thousand years?
The recognized ancestor of the Langya clan was Ji Jin, the crown prince of the Zhou Ling King in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, who was angered by the fact that the Ling King of Zhou was relegated from the palace because he repeatedly gave his father the King of Zhou Ling, and had no choice but to live in the city, and the other people had great respect for this degraded prince, so they called him "Wang Family", so the Wang surname was born.
By the time of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang had a famous general named Wang Qi ,王翦 led the Qin army into handan, the capital of the Zhao state, and defeated Xiang Yu's grandfather Xiang Yan and destroyed the Chu state. Wang Qi's son Wang Ben destroyed the remnants of the Wei, Yan, Qi, and Zhao states, and they were all made marquises by Qin Shi Huang, which was also the origin of the first development of the Langya Wang clan.
Wang Ben's eldest grandson was named Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan's great-grandson was named Wang Ji, Wang Ji was a counselor in the Western Han Dynasty, he set a family training of only 6 characters for the Wang clan, but since then, the Langya Wang clan has gone through a thousand years without decline, according to the dialectics of the ancient and modern surname book, it is recorded: "The Langya Wang clan from the Han Counselor Wang Ji below, more Wei and Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties, a family of sixty-two people, three public servants more than fifty people, eighty servants, twenty-five officials Shangshu. ”
From the Western Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were more than fifty "three dukes" who served as officials, and there were hundreds of ministerial-level cadres, which showed the prosperity of its development. This was not yet the peak of the Langya Wang clan, after the Yongjia Rebellion of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Langya Wang clan surrounded the Imperial Sima Family of the Jin Dynasty across the Yellow River and settled again in the south.
At that time, the Wang clan brought all kinds of things to the south, even chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs, which also allowed the Langya Wang clan to maintain a strong strength after the relocation, and even the emperor Sima Rui suddenly took the initiative to walk down from the dragon chair when accepting the worship of the hundred officials, and asked the Wang Guide of the Langya Wang clan to sit down on the dragon chair and let him accept the worship of the hundred officials together, which was called "the king and the horse, the world together."
The "king" of the Langya Wang clan was still ranked ahead of the "horse" of the Sima family, which shows how far the Langya Wang clan was at that time. Even after the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, in the more than five hundred years from the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the talents of the Langya Wang clan were still endless, and according to the overall statistics of the "Twenty-Four Histories", from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties for more than 1700 years, the Langya Wang clan produced a total of 36 empresses such as Wang Shenai, Wang Xianyan, and Wang Zhenfeng, including 36 horses including Wang Xianzhi, and 92 prime ministers such as Wang Ji, Wang Dao, and Wang Xizhi.
The Langya Wang clan has been endless for thousands of years, and the literati and inkers have emerged in an endless stream, which has a lot to do with the 6-character family motto "Speak slowly, be kind in heart" set by Wang Ji, and speak slowly, that is to say, when making decisions, you need to think as carefully as possible, and the heart needs to be as kind as possible, so that people can make fewer enemies, but have more friends, uphold these two tips, then the road of life can go more and more open, and the family will naturally become more and more prosperous.