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Wang Anshi, the eighth lord of the Tang and Song dynasties, was born

On this day, 993 years ago, on January 18, 1021 (the third day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar), Wang Anshi, the eighth master of the Tang and Song dynasties, was born.

Wang Anshi (18 January 1021 – 21 May 1086), courtesy name Jiefu (介甫), was a posthumous courtesy name "Wen" (文). The small character Badger Lang, in his later years, was enfeoffed as the Duke of Jingguo, also known as Wang Jinggong, of Han ethnicity. Linchuan of the Northern Song Dynasty (present-day Shangchi Village, Dongxiang County, Jiangxi Province) was a prominent Chinese politician, writer, thinker, and reformer. Outstanding achievements in literature. His poems are "learning to get their thinness", good at reasoning and rhetoric, good at using allusions, strong in style (qiú), police and exquisite, and there are also works with deep rhyme. He is the author of "The Collected Writings of Mr. Linchuan". He was born into a family of petty officials. Father Yi, word loss, was a judge of the Linjiang Army, and served several prefecture and county officials in the north and south of the country during his lifetime. An Shi is less good at reading, has a strong memory, and receives a better education. In the second year of the Qing calendar (1042), he was the fourth in the List of Jinshi of Dengyang, and successively served as an official in Huainan, Yinxian Zhixian, Shuzhou Tongju, Changzhou Zhizhou, and Tidian Jiangdong Prison. In the fourth year of Zhiping (1067), Emperor Shenzong took the throne at the beginning of the reign, and Zhao'an Shizhi Knew Jiangning Province, and was summoned to the rank of Hanlin Scholar. In the second year of Xi Ning (1069), he was promoted to the position of Governor of the People's Republic of China, and from the third year of Xi Ning, he twice served as the Secretary of Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi and implemented the new law. After Xi Ning's nine-year resignation, he lived in seclusion and died of illness at Zhongshan In Jiangning (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu), with the courtesy name "Wen" (文), also known as Wang Wengong (王文公). Its political transformation method had a profound impact on the social economy of the late Northern Song Dynasty, and it already had the characteristics of modern changes, and was praised by Lenin as "the great reformer of China in the eleventh century".

Wang Anshi, who was born into a family of petty officials. His father's name was Yi, and he was a judge of the Linjiang Army, and served several times as a prefecture and county official in various parts of the north and south during his life. Because of his stubborn nature, Wang Anshi, who was jokingly called "Xianggong" at the time, traveled to many places with his father when he was a teenager and had some perceptual understanding of the social problems of the Song Dynasty. Have a strong will and a strong sense of social responsibility, and be unswerving in the process of changing the law.

An Shi is less good at reading, has a strong memory, and receives a better education. In the second year of the Qing calendar (1042), he was the fourth in the List of Jinshi of Dengyang, and successively served as an official in Huainan, Yinxian Zhixian, Shuzhou Tongju, Changzhou Zhizhou, and Tidian Jiangdong Prison. In 1067, Emperor Shenzong ascended the throne at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Shenzong, and zhao'an Shizhi knew Jiangning Province, and was summoned to the rank of Hanlin scholar. In the second year of Xi Ning (1069), he was promoted to the position of Governor of the People's Republic of China, and from the third year of Xi Ning, he twice served as the Secretary of Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi and implemented the new law. After Xi Ning's nine-year resignation, he lived in seclusion and died of illness at Zhongshan In Jiangning (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu), with the courtesy name "Wen" (文), also known as Wang Wengong (王文公). Its political transformation method had a profound impact on the social economy of the late Northern Song Dynasty, and it already had the characteristics of modern changes, and was praised by Lenin as "the great reformer of China in the eleventh century".

In the fourth year of the Qing Dynasty (1044), he was ranked fourth and first in jinshi, and later served as a magistrate in Yangzhou, Yinxian (present-day Ningbo, Zhejiang), Shuzhou (present-day Qianshan, Anhui), and Changzhou. Years of experience as a local official not only made Wang Anshi deeply aware of the universal impoverishment of society in the Song Dynasty, but also made Wang Anshi realize that the root cause of social impoverishment lies in annexation. As a result, Wang Anshi further realized that the crisis faced by the feudal rule of the Song Dynasty was that the internal one could not be without worrying about the social order, and the outside could not be without fear of Yi Di. Therefore, in the third year of Jiayou (1058), Wang Anshi analyzed the situation of the Song Dynasty's internal and external troubles, increasing financial poverty, and increasingly corrupt customs in the 10,000-word "Letter of Speech of Emperor Shangrenzong", and put forward the urgency of changing the world's malpractice and cultivating a large number of talents to meet the needs of reforming the law. He demanded that Emperor Renzong of Song take the restoration of the Han and Tang dynasties as a lesson for the past and resolutely implement the change of law. He also put forward the idea of financial management because of the power of the world to produce the wealth of the world, and to take the wealth of the world to provide for the expenses of the world. This letter of speech was praised by the average bureaucrat, but received no reaction from the supreme ruling clique.

His poems "learn to get his thinness", good at reasoning and rhetoric, good at using allusions, strong and powerful style, alert and exquisite, but also have works with deep rhyme. He is the author of "The Collected Writings of Mr. Linchuan". With "Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Rui, Zeng Gong", and known as the "Eight Greats of the Tang and Song Dynasties".