In 1269, when Zhang Yanghao was born in Jinan, the Yuan Dynasty had been destroyed for thirty-five years, and the Southern Song Dynasty also ended two years after his birth, and Lao Zhang did not argue, did not live to the era when Xu Shouhui Zhang Shicheng Chen Youchen forgave Zhu Yuanzhang's dragons and tigers to chase deer in the Central Plains, it can be said that he was born under the iron horse and grew up in the Yuan Dynasty.
Zhang Yanghao was a literati, and he did not have the courage and stance of assassinating the regent like Wang Zhaoming in later generations, so even if he became a high official of the Yuan Dynasty, the impact was far more shocking than Wang Jingwei's surrender to the enemy. Even if you later become famous, indifferent to utilitarianism, and resign from the government several times, considering that you finally re-emerged from the jianghu to devote yourself to the career, you see, maybe the chips are still not high enough.
The world knows Zhang Yanghao, thanks to his "Hillside Sheep Tong Cares for the Ancients": "The peaks are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are on the surface of the Tongguan Road." Looking at Xidu, I hesitated. Sadly, Qin and Han made soil in the middle of the road, and the palace was made of soil. Rise, the people suffer; death, the people suffer. In particular, the last eight-character proverb of the poem can be said to have fulfilled the voice of the people of Li in the great era of dynastic change, no matter who wins and who loses, the people will always be cannon fodder, no matter which king's banner is erected at the head of the city, it has nothing to do with the people.
This is not Zhang Yanghao's voice, although the age of his voice is really suspicious, Zhang Yanghao grew up in the era, the Yuan Dynasty has established a solid rule in the Central Plains, as a Han Zhang Yanghao, may not miss the benefits of the Jin Dynasty, the prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty is a more distant existence.
Then the intention that this "Huaigu" can represent should be how The Han literati Shizi, represented by Zhang Yanghao, minimized the harm of foreign rule and maximized the rights and interests of the Han people under the "waves of anger" of foreign nationalities, which is also the main proposition of his life.
In 1313, the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was exactly halfway through, under the active promotion of Zhang Yanghao and others, the suspension of the half-course imperial examination was finally resumed, and Zhang Yanghao himself personally presided over the examination, which was Zhang Yanghao's great contribution to the imperial examination system, and of course, his great contribution to the literati who were full of complaints and lacked a way to rise, originally these literati had turned to writing Yuan Sanqu to cultivate their sentiments because they had no sense of direction, but Zhang Yanghao pulled them back to the old revolutionary tradition of reading and writing. Yuan Sanqu was pulled out of the barrel and caused a talent gap. Therefore, although Zhang Yanghao himself is a yuan sanqu master, his blow to the lively yuan sanqu is also fatal.