Han Yu (768 -824), a writer, philosopher and thinker in Tang Dynasty, was born in Heyang (now mengzhou city, Jiaozuo, Henan). Originally from Changli, Hebei Province, he was known as Han Changli in the world. In his later years, he served as assistant minister of the official department, also known as the Korean official department. Posthumous title "Wen", also known as Han Wengong. He and Liu Zongyuan were both advocates of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty, who advocated learning the prose language of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, breaking parallel prose and expanding the expressive function of classical Chinese. In the Song Dynasty, Su Shi called him "the decline of eight generations of literature", who drowned himself in the world, was loyal to the prisoner's anger, and was handsome in the three armed forces "(eight generations: Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, Wei, Qi, Zhou and Sui); Ming people praised him as the first of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties, and called him "Liu Han" with Liu Zongyuan. Du Mu juxtaposes Koreans with Du Shi, calling them "Du Han Shi Bi", and is known as "a great writer of articles" and "a hundred generations of literators". He is the author of 40 volumes of Han Changli's Collected Works, Foreign Collected Works 10, Teachers' Comments, etc. Han Yu is also a master of languages. He is good at borrowing predecessors' words and paying attention to the refinement of contemporary spoken language, and he can create many new sentences, many of which have become idioms so far, such as "falling when it hurts", "blaming easily" and "losing your mind". Ideologically, he is the founder of China's "orthodoxy" concept and a symbolic figure who respects Confucianism and opposes Buddhism.
Han Yu was lonely at the age of three and was raised by his brother and sister-in-law. In his early years, he was displaced and had a hard life. He had the ambition to study the world. Although he is lonely and poor, he studies hard. At the age of twenty, I went to Chang 'an to take the Jinshi exam, but I didn't try it for the third time. After the age of twenty-five, he was the first scholar. After three unsuccessful attempts to learn Hongci, he went to Bianzhou Dongjin and Xuzhou Zhang Jianfeng as shogunate. Later, he returned to Beijing as a doctor from four universities. After the age of 36, he was appointed as the imperial army. Because he wrote a letter about drought and hunger, please reduce taxes and downgrade Yangshan order. Xian zong returned to the north as a doctor of the country, tired of being an official for the right illegitimate son of the prince, but failed. After 50, he first recruited Wu Yuanji from Pei Du, and then transferred to assistant minister of punishments. Because of remonstrance, the Buddha's bones greeted, and Chaozhou's secretariat fell. Move to Yuanzhou. Soon after, he returned to North Korea, where he died at the age of 57. More successful politically. Poetry strives to be novel, bold and imposing.
Liu Zongyuan (773 -8 19), with thick words, was a writer, philosopher, essayist and thinker in the Tang Dynasty, and his ancestral home was Hedong (now Yongji area in Yuncheng, Shanxi). People all over the world call it "Liu Hedong" and "Mr Hedong", and they also call it "Liu Liuzhou" because of the history of Liuzhou secretariat. Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu are called Liu Han, Liu Yuxi is called Liu Liu, and Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and Wei Wuying are called Wang Meng. Born in Chang 'an, he was a scholar in the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793), and he was the official governor of the empire. He left more than 600 poems in his life, and his achievements were greater than poems. He is under 50 years old. He is the author of Liuhe East Collection and so on.
During the reign of Emperor Shunzong, Wang was in power. He served as the minister of rites and was determined to carry out political reform. Soon, Wang failed, and he was demoted to Yongzhou Sima and transferred to Liuzhou Secretariat. He lived in the south for fourteen years and died in Liuzhou. A famous thinker and outstanding writer in Tang Dynasty. As an advocate of the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty and one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, Liu Zongyuan opposed the glamorous style of writing that has enveloped the literary world since the Six Dynasties and advocated concise and smooth prose. He is the author of forty-five volumes of Liuhe Dongji and two volumes of Waiji. Xiaoshitang is the most famous of Liu Zongyuan's Eight Chapters of Yongzhou.
Liu Zongyuan left more than 600 poems in his life. Most of his poems are about expressing depression, grief, homesickness and friendship, which makes him unique. What is most praised by the world is those leisurely landscapes with deep feelings. Liu Zongyuan and Han Yu, another writer in the Tang Dynasty, advocated the ancient prose movement in the Tang Dynasty. In his travels and fables, Liu Zongyuan also left outstanding works for future generations. Eight Chapters of Yongzhou became the representative work of China's ancient landscape travel notes. These beautiful landscape travel notes vividly express people's feelings about natural beauty, enrich the new field of classical prose reflecting life, and thus establish the position of landscape travel notes as an independent literary genre in the history of literature. Because of its artistic achievements, it has been told by people throughout the ages and is highly respected. Besides fable poems, Liu Zongyuan also wrote many fables, such as Donkey of Guizhou, Mouse of Yongmou, Elk of Linjiang, etc., which also became famous fables in ancient times. "The donkey is poor in skills" has become an idiom, and almost everyone knows it. Some fables are short in length, but they are told through the ages, just like his landscapes.
The most popular works are written after being demoted, and Yongzhou's works are better. Eight Notes on Yongzhou: Travel Notes on the First Banquet of Xishan, Guantan, Guantan Xishan, Xiaoshitang, Yuanjiake, Shiqu, Shi Jian and Koishiyama. It is steep and clean, or clear and beautiful, and reproduces the beauty of nature with exquisite language. Eight Records of Yongzhou was written four years after Yuanhe. At that time, Liu Zongyuan was exiled to Yongzhou, which is now Yongzhou, Hunan Province, because of the failure of political reform. The articles are all some scenery near Yongzhou at that time. The article is short, light, concise and fluent, which has been praised by all previous dynasties. Among them, the story of Xiaoshitang is the most famous. Through his own pen, the author described a quiet and peaceful scenery in Xiaoshitang. The article is fascinating and endless. At first, Xiaoshitang was presented by hearing its sound first and then seeing its shape. Write a pool with fish, then the clarity of the pool water can be imagined; People who write about fish are happy beyond words. The author's image is vivid, subtle, economical and superb. At the end, it is written in a quiet and quiet environment, a sad feeling and a blend of scenes.
Su Shi (1037-11year), a famous writer, calligrapher and essayist in the Northern Song Dynasty, was awarded the title of "Grandmaster" in the Southern Song Dynasty to pursue posthumous title's "Wen Zhong". Su Shi has made great achievements in poetry, ci, prose, calligraphy and painting, and is recognized as one of the most outstanding literary and artistic attainments in China for thousands of years. His prose is called "Su Hai in Han Dynasty" with Han Yu, "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian and "the first all-rounder in ancient China" with Xin Qiji. Su Shi, his father Su Xun (1009 ~ 1066) and his brother Su Zhe (1039 ~12) are all famous for their literature, and they are also called "Three Sus". In the second year of Jiayou (1057), he was a scholar with his younger brother. His works include Seven Episodes of Dongpo, Dongpo Yuefu and Dongpo Zhi Lin.
In the second year of Jiayou (1057), he was a scholar with his brother Su Zhe. Dali was appointed as the judge and signed the book Fengxiang House. In the second year of Xining (1069), he returned to the DPRK after the expiration of his father's funeral system and sued the court for being a judge. Disagreement with Wang Anshi's political views, opposition to the implementation of the new law, self-employment, and imprisonment for General Hangzhou. Move to Mizhou (now Zhucheng, Shandong Province) and Xuzhou. In the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), he was involved in Wutai poetry case, and was responsible for granting Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei Province) as an assistant and setting up this state. He is not allowed to sign books and official documents. Empress Dowager Zhe Li Zong came to the DPRK and was reinstated as Langfengzhi Dengzhou (now Penglai, Shandong Province); Four months later, he was transferred to the doctor of does; Before the term of office expires, in addition to living in the government, I moved to Zhongshu, moved to Hanlin Bachelor, and knew the imperial edict and the Ministry of Rites. Yuan You four years (1089), out of Hangzhou, then changed to Yingzhou, Yangzhou and Dingzhou. In the eighth year of Yuan You (1093), the philosopher ruled the country and was banished to Huizhou (now Huiyang, Guangdong). Born four years less (1097), Su Shi, who was 62 years old at that time, was sent to Danzhou, Hainan Island (now Danxian County, Hainan Province), a desolate place. After Hui Zong ascended the throne, Su Shi was transferred to Lianzhou for resettlement, Yong Lian for resettlement and Yongzhou for resettlement. In the third year, Fu Yuan was granted amnesty (11kloc-0/), and Lang Feng was reinstated. On the way back to the north, he died in Changzhou (now Jiangsu) on July 28th, the first year of Guo Jing, Zhong Jian (110/). At the age of 65, he was buried in Tancheng County, Ruzhou (now jia county, Henan Province). Su Shi left a will and buried Shangri-La in Juntai Township, Tancheng County, Ruzhou. The following year, his son Su Guo transported his father's coffin back to Tancheng County for burial. After Song Gaozong acceded to the throne, Su Shi was posthumously named as a teacher and posthumous title "Wen Zhong".
Su Xun (1009-1066), whose real name is Mingyun, is from Lao Quan. Meishan people in Sichuan. 58 years old. At the age of 27, I became eager to learn. At the age of 20, I raised Jinshi and Cai Mao. , all missed. I learned to burn my articles and study behind closed doors, so I learned the Six Classics and I wrote thousands of words in an instant. Between Jia You and him, he took his second son, Shi Hezhe, to Beijing. Ouyang Xiu published 22 books, such as Lun Heng and Quan Shu, which were circulated by scholars. Han Qi, the Prime Minister, plays in the court, except for the secretary and the provincial school bookkeeper. He and Yao Bi, the prefect of Xiangcheng, wrote the book The Book of Rites Since the Dragon, which is one hundred volumes of Taichang Yin Ge Rites. A book becomes a book, but it will die. There are only twenty volumes, and there are three volumes, all of which are biographies of the history of the Song Dynasty, which have been handed down to the world. Su Xun is the "Su Laoquan" mentioned in Saint Amethyst's Twenty-Seven. Su Xun got angry late, but he worked hard. In his later years, Su Shi recalled his childhood study with his father and felt his father's profound influence on him. Of course, if Su Xun didn't study hard, Su Shi couldn't have received a good family education in his early years, not to mention a young Su Shi who "learned classics and history, earning thousands of words a day".
Su Xun's father Su Xu and mother Shi have two brothers, Su Lian and Su Huan. Su Xun had a hard time studying when he was young. He/Kloc-married Cheng at the age of 0/9 and made up his mind to study hard at the age of 27. After studying hard for more than ten years, he has made great progress in his studies.
In the first year of Injong Jiayou (1056), Su Shi and Su Zhe were introduced to Bianjing, and Ouyang Xiu, a bachelor of Hanlin, was called. Ouyang Xiu admired his works, such as Power, Balance and Tactics, and thought that they could be comparable to Jia Yi and Liu Xiang, so he recommended them to the court. At that time, officials and scholars rushed to tell stories, and the literary name flourished.
In the second year of Jiayou (1057), the second son tied the list in the exam and caused a sensation in Beijing.
In the third year of Jiayou (1058), Renzong called him to the Sheren Hospital to take the exam, but he refused to reply on the grounds of illness.
In the fifth year of Jiayou (1060), he was recommended by Han Qi as the secretary of the provincial school, and later became the master book of Wen 'an County in Bazhou. He also ordered Yao Bi, the county magistrate of Xiangcheng (now Henan) in Chen Zhou, to write a hundred volumes of dharma books for fellow initiates. Soon after writing, he died and was posthumously awarded as Guanglu Temple Cheng.
Su Zhe (1039-112) was born in Meishan, Meizhou, Han nationality. In the second year of Jiayou (1057), he joined the Jinshi branch with his younger brother Su Shi. God is the emperor of the dynasty and the official of the three divisions. He was promoted in Henan for opposing Wang Anshi's political reform. When he was a philosopher, he was called the secretary of the provincial school. In the first year of Yuan You, you remonstrated. Zhong Cheng, Shangshu Youcheng, and his assistant minister learned about Ruzhou, demoted Yunzhou, moved to Leizhou and moved to Zhou Xun. Hui moved to Yongzhou and Yuezhou successively to become a Chinese medicine practitioner, and then moved to Xuzhou to be an official. Self-styled welcome legacy. A pawn, a stone man One of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, he is as famous as his father Su Xun and his brother Su Shi, and is collectively called Su San.
Su Zhebaoyuan was born on February 20th, 2002 (1March 039 18). In the second year of Emperor Renzong Jiayou (1057), he joined Su Shi as a scholar. Soon after, he returned to mourning because of the loss of his mother. After six years in Jiayou (106 1), he studied with Su Shi. At that time, he was not appointed as an official because of "begging for support" and has been an official in Daming House since then.
In the fifth year of Xining (1072), he entered Henan as an official. In the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085), the old party came to power and was dismissed. He served as the secretary of the provincial school bookkeeper and the right bookkeeper, and was promoted to the position of Zhulang. He served as the official of Zhongshu Sheren, assistant minister of the household department, etc. until the third year of Chongning (1 104), he settled in Yingchuan, lived in seclusion in the countryside, and died in112 years/.
Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072) was a politician, writer, historian and poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. The word Yongshu, a drunkard, was also named Liu Yiju in his later years (Liu Yi has a collection of 10,000 books, epigraphy of 1,000 books, a piano and a chess, a pot of wine and an alcoholic), and he was born in Yongfeng, Jizhou (now Mianyang, Sichuan). Tiansheng Jinshi was disgusted with the imperial edict when he was in Renzong, and he was a bachelor of Hanlin. When Yingzong was an official, he was a Tang Dynasty envoy and participated in the discussion of state affairs. The Zongshen dynasty moved the Ministry of War ministers and took Prince Shao Shi as the official. A pawn is Wen Zhong. Fan Zhongyan was not only a supporter of Li Qing's New Deal, but also a leader of the poetic innovation movement in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is also happy to reward and punish the backward, and Su Shi's brothers Ceng Gong and Wang Anshi are all out of his house. His poems, words and essays are all the best at the moment. Poetry is eloquent and lyrical, and it is one of the "eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". Poetry style is similar to prose, emphasizing momentum, smooth and natural; His poems are deep and beautiful, inheriting the lingering wind of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Co-edited the Book of the New Tang Dynasty with Song Qi, and independently wrote the History of the New Five Dynasties. I also like to collect epigraphy and compile it into Records of the Historians. Author of Ouyang Wenzhong's Collection of Official Documents.
Ouyang Xiu lost his father at an early age and studied under the care of his widowed mother. Injong Tiansheng eight years (1030) Jinshi. The following year, he was appointed as an official of Xijing (now Luoyang) and became a close friend of Mei He, exchanging poems with each other. In the first year of Jingyou (1034), the bachelor's college was called, Xuandelang was appointed, and the pavilion was filled for collation. In the third year of Jingyou, Fan Zhongyan was demoted to Raozhou for criticizing the current politics in the previous chapter, and Ouyang Xiu defended him and was demoted to Yiling (now Yichang, Hubei) county magistrate. In the first year of Kangding (1040), Ouyang Xiu was recalled to Beijing, and was appointed as the proofreader of Guange, which was later called the suggestion court. In the third year of Li Qing (1043), Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Fu Bi and others promoted the "Qingli New Deal", and Ouyang Xiu participated in the innovation and put forward the idea of reforming the official administration, military affairs and tribute law. In five years, Fan, Han and Fu were successively demoted, and Ouyang Xiu was also demoted as the magistrate of Chuzhou (now Chuzhou, Anhui). Later, Yangzhou, Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui) and Yingtianfu (now Shangqiu, Henan) were also known. In August, the first year of He Zhi (1054), he entered Beijing with a letter, and he was a fellow of Song Qi's New Tang Book. In February of the second year of Jiayou (1057), Ouyang Xiu presided over the Jinshi examination as a bachelor of Hanlin, advocated plain writing style, and admitted Su Shi, Su Zhe, Ceng Gong and others. This has a great influence on the change of writing style in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the fifth year of Jiayou (1060), Ouyang Xiu paid homage to the parliament. The following year, he was appointed to participate in political affairs. Later, he successively served as the minister of punishments and the minister of war. In the second year of Zong Shenxi Ning (1066), Wang Anshi implemented the new law. Ouyang xiu opposed the young crops law and did not implement it. In the third year of Xining (1070), except for the post of ambassador of Taibao South Hospital, he insisted on not accepting it and changed the prefecture to Cai Zhou (now runan county, Henan). This year, he changed his name to "Six-One Lay Man". In June of the fourth year of Xining (107 1), he resigned as Prince Shao Shi and lived in Yingzhou. He died of Wenzhong.
Wang Anshi (102 1 year-1086), whose real name was born in the mid-levels in his later years, is known as the king. Born in Linchuan (now Shangchi Village, dongxiang county City, Jiangxi Province) in the Northern Song Dynasty, Han nationality. An outstanding politician, thinker, writer and reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty, he was one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties. He was born in a small official family. Father's benefit, word loss, is a judge of Linjiang army, and he has served as a county official in several States all his life. Anshi doesn't like reading very much, has a strong memory and is well educated. In the second year (1042), Li Qing ranked fourth in Emperor Wen of Sui Jinshi list, and successively served as the prison officer of Huainan magistrate, Yinxian magistrate, Changzhou magistrate and Tiaodian Jiangdong. In the fourth year of Zhiping (1067), Zong Shenchu acceded to the throne, and Zhao 'an was called a bachelor of Hanlin from Jiangning Government School. In the second year of Xining (1069), he was promoted to participate in politics. Since Xining three years ago, he has twice served as a reformer and promoted the new law. Xi Ning lived in seclusion after nine years' strike and died in Zhongshan, posthumous title, Jiangning (now Nanjing, Jiangsu). "The prime minister can punt in his stomach" is Wang Anshi. Lenin praised him as "1 1 the greatest reformer in China in the century".
Originally from Linchuan, Fuzhou (now Fuzhou, Jiangxi), he was born in Linjiang Army (now Qingjiang, Jiangxi). The word Fu Jie, no, is Mid-Levels. Father Wang Yi, a scholar, worked in Jiangxi and Guangdong counties for a long time and died in jiangning house (Nanjing, Jiangsu). After the whole family moved, they couldn't stay long, so Jiangning became their second hometown. Yang traveled around with his father and learned a lot, as well as the people's feelings. In the second year of Li Qing (1042), he was promoted to Jinshi and served as the judge of Weinan East Road (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu). In the seventh year of Li Qing (1047), he was transferred to Yinxian County (now southeast of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province), visited Dongxi Township 14, deployed water conservancy projects, and created Gumin loan (at the beginning of the Young Crop Law). He has a good political record and a unique view that financial management must be a "world of capital" (that is, relying on the development of production). Huang You was transferred to Zhou Shu (now Anhui Huaining) for three years (105 1). Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi, celebrities in the capital, heard his words and his politics, so they wrote letters of recommendation. They all refused to take the post of Hanlin Pavilion on the grounds that "the family is poor and there are many people". During this period, they only served as pastoral judges of Taichang Temple for one year, insisting on leaving Beijing as southeast local officials and "doing their best". The second year of Jiayou (1057) was well known in Changzhou. The following year, he was transferred to the prison of Tiaodian East Road (Raozhou, now Boyang, Jiangxi) and soon became the judge of the third division. Xiang Renzong's Quotations advocated that the reform of official administration should start from all aspects of cultivating and using talents, but also from financial management and military affairs, which was actually the early program or theoretical prototype of later reform. Renzong praised his literary talent, but he did not adopt the reform. Then on "Current Affairs" (also known as "Nothing in this century"; When it was put forward in the first year of Ning, JaeHee, Zongshen strongly urged timely reform. "There is a promising day, so don't rush to today; I'm afraid I have nothing to worry about today. " In the eighth year of Jiayou (1063), Injong died, and soon his mother returned to Jiangning to keep her post. Yingzong was in power for four years, and he couldn't leave home.
In the fourth year of Zhiping (1067), Zongshen ascended the throne and was renamed Yuan Xining the following year. From Jiangning magistrate to Hanlin bachelor, he strongly advocated political reform under the call of Zongshen. In the second year of Xining (1069), in February, he became a government affairs consultant and made the third division of laws and regulations, preparing for political reform. At the same time, Lv Huiqing was appointed secretary of laws and regulations, examined detailed texts, and became administrative deputy Wang Anshi's political reform. In that year, the equal loss law, the young crop law and the farmland water conservancy law were promulgated. The following year, he was appointed as Prime Minister. Shintoism strikes and establishes three rules, and the rights belong to Zhongshu. Promulgate the Garbo Law and the Conscription Law (first tried out in Kaifeng). In the following three years, the tribute law, market exchange law, horse protection law, land equalization tax law and general placement law were gradually promulgated; The Exemption Law was implemented in Kaifeng the following year. In the seventh year of Xining (1074), there were Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang outside, and there were three Empresses (Injong Empress, Yingzong Empress and Zongshen Empress) who strongly opposed the new law. Xia Zheng put forward an alarmist map of refugees. Lv Huiqing and Ceng Bu, important figures in the new law, lost peace with each other. Zongshen stopped the new law and resigned six times in anger. Jiangning house is out of phase. In February of the following year, the second stage was resumed. In the end, due to the differences with Zongshen, the reform progressed difficultly. Less than a year later, he resigned again and sentenced jiangning house to retire to Jiangning Mid-Levels Park. Be named Jing Guogong. In his later years, he became a good Buddha and wrote Zi Shuo to amuse himself, but he still did not forget the reform. In the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085), Zongshen died. The following year, Zhezong changed to "Yuan You", the Empress Dowager listened to politics, Sima Guang was appointed as prime minister, and was dismissed successively. He died of illness in April 1920. History is "Wen", so history is called "Wang Wengong". There are Wang Wen's Official Documents Collection, Mr. Linchuan's Collection, Zhou Guan Xin Yi, Eleven Goushen and other masterpieces handed down from ancient times.
Ceng Gong (10 19-1083) was called "Mr. Nanfeng" from August 25th, Tianxi three years to April 11th, Yuanfeng six years. Han nationality, from Nanfeng, Jianchang (now Jiangxi), lives in Linchuan (now west of Fuzhou, Jiangxi). Sun of Zeng Zhiyao, son of Zeng. In the second year of Jiayou (1057), he was a scholar. Politician and essayist in the Northern Song Dynasty, one of the "Eight Great Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties" and one of the "Seven Zeng in Nanfeng" (Ceng Gong, Zeng Zhao, Ceng Bu, Zeng Zhu, Zeng Xie and Zeng Dun).
Ceng Gong claimed to be a Confucian (The First Book of Ouyang Xiu by Ceng Gong). His grandfather was a doctor and his father was a doctor too often. Ceng Gong is very talented and has a good memory. When he was young, he read poetry books and could recite them. He and his brother Zeng Ye studied hard together and showed great talent from an early age. According to historical records, Gong "can speak at the age of twelve, and his language is amazing". His younger brother Zeng Zhao called him "born alert, not like a teenager" in "A Journey to My Dead Brother", and he had a superior memory, "reading tens of thousands of words and blurting it out". /kloc-when he was 0/8 years old, he went to Beijing to take the exam, met Wang Anshi, who was in Beijing with his father, and became close friends. At the age of 20, he entered imperial academy and wrote Ouyang Xiu, presenting "Current Affairs Policy". Ouyang Xiu appreciates his unique style of writing. Ouyang Xiu said: "There are hundreds of people who have passed our door, and they are happy to live alone." ("Bachelor Ouyang Er Shu") has been famous all over the world since then, but it has been tried and tested because it is good at planning and is lighter than the current article. In the seventh year of Li Qing (1047), his father died. As the second son (with a brother on it), he had to drop out of school and return to his hometown to serve his stepmother wholeheartedly. When Ceng Gong was a teenager, he and Wang Anshi were close friends. After boarding Ouyang Xiu's door, he recommended Wang Anshi to Ouyang Xiu. It was not until the second year of Jiayou (1058) that Ouyang Xiu presided over the examination, insisting on giving priority to ancient prose and strategy, supplemented by poetry and prose, that Ceng Gong and his brothers Zeng Mou, Ceng Bu and cousin Zeng Fu became the first scholar.
In the fourth year of Jiayou (1059), he joined the army in Taipingfu (now dangtu county, Anhui Province) and was famous for his understanding of laws and regulations and appropriate sentencing. In the past five years, Ouyang Xiu recommended him to the capital for collating, recruiting talents, sorting out and collating a large number of ancient books, such as Warring States Policy, Shuoyuan, New Preface, Liang Shu, Tang Ling, Li Taibai Ji, Inclusive Poems, Biography of Women, etc., and made many books of past dynasties.
In the second year of Xining (1069), he was a proofreader of A Story of Song Yingzong, and was soon released to Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) to serve his sentence. He has worked in Xining for five years, and has successively served as well-known person, Xiangzhou, Hongzhou, Fuzhou, Mingzhou and Bozhou. Honest and honest, diligent in political affairs, concerned about people's livelihood. He implemented the new law according to Wang Anshi's purpose and actual situation. Committed to rehabilitating unjust imprisonment, maintaining social order, cracking down on strongmen, disaster relief and epidemic prevention, dredging river bridges, setting up post stations, restoring cities, setting up schools, cutting official documents, rectifying official management, and abolishing exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees, it was well received by the masses.
For three years (1080), Yuan Feng was appointed as the Zhizhou of Cangzhou (now Hebei). When passing through Kaifeng, Song Shenzong summoned him. Song Shenzong appreciated his suggestion that "saving is the key to financial management" and stayed in a tertiary hospital. In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, the court thought that "Ceng Gong should be a scholar in compiling the history of the Five Dynasties", appointed him as a historian, edited the courtyard, and sentenced the Taichang Hall as a ritual. In the fifth year of Yuanfeng, he worshipped Zhongshu Sheren. In September of the same year, he was mourned by his mother and went to the official. The following year, he died in jiangning house (now Nanjing). Buried in the right of Nanfengyuan Chongjue Temple. The Southern Song Dynasty was called "Wen Ding" and "Mr. Nanfeng".