Yao Xuan

Yao Xuan

Yao Xuan, with the name of Baozhi, was born in Hefei, Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui Province). He was a Jinshi in the imperial examination and served as the Prime Minister for three times.

Life of the characters

In the eighth year of Taiping's rejuvenation of the country (983), Yao Xuan passed the imperial examination. He understood Dali's comments and knew Xiangxiang County in Tanzhou. He served as the Prime Minister of the palace for three times, and was appointed to Jianzhou, Xuanzhou and Shengzhou. In 1994, Yao Xuan was in the direct embassy and served at the banquet in the inner court. He wrote poems about flowers and fishing, and made special appreciation. The next day, the emperor ordered his messengers to go to his home to give him a platinum reward.

At the beginning of the Dao Dynasty, Yao xuanqian was appointed as taichangcheng, and served as a transit envoy to the west of Beijing. He successively served as youzhengyan, yousijian, and Hedong. "I have seen officials everywhere who are honest, impartial, devoted to their duties and bring benefits to the people should be rewarded, commended and publicized. However, those crafty corrupt officials should be removed from their posts, severely punished and filed. Li said, "if a person is filial, his political work will be carried out, and if he dies, his political interest will be restored." It is also said that "the policy of the old Lingyin must be told to the new Lingyin." this is the sage's motto, and it is also the top priority of the country... ". The imperial court issued an imperial edict to allow Yao Xuan to play sparsely.

In the third year of Xianping (1000), the rainstorm caused disaster. The flood broke the embankment of the Wangling River in Yunzhou, overflowed to the southeast Juye, and flowed into the Huaihe River. The four rivers, the city's stagnant water, flooded the houses. Yao xuanzhi Yunzhou government, the state capital temporarily moved to Wenyang high ground, five miles in front of the mausoleum, temporary office, in order to organize flood relief and other civil affairs work. On March 11 of the same year, Yao Xian received the imperial edict from the Imperial Academy, Zhu Qing, and Xuanzhao the stele of moving Yunzhou to build the city at the new site. Yao Xuan was praised by the local people for his timely handling of government affairs and conscientious and pragmatic style. Later, he was promoted to living quarters, Tokyo transit envoy, and apprenticed to Zhejiang Road.

Yao Xuan died in 1020 at the age of 53.

Character evaluation

Yao Xuan is elegant, forthright and magnanimous. Xue Ying, the governor of Hangzhou, and Yao Xuan were in the same political power, but they were not in harmony and had many contradictions. Xue Ying plays Yao Xuan's accusations in secret. As a result, the imperial court issued an imperial edict to impeach Yao Xuan, cut his official position, especially his fame, and demoted him to Lingnan Lianzhou literature. From Jizhou to Wan'an, there are many rocks on the river, and the boat is dangerous. After Yao Xuan passed by the boat, he felt a lot and wrote poems. In 1012, Yao Xuan was transferred to Yuezhou, then to Shuzhou, and soon served as the deputy regiment training envoy.

He is good at writing. There are many different books in his collection. When he was relegated, he set up a special person to write and copy books for him. According to his collection of books, he collected the Tang Dynasty's Wenyuan dictionaries, classified them and compiled them into a hundred volumes of Wencui, which is a famous collection of dynastic essays. During his exile, he was still carrying books with him. After his death, his son dedicated the collection of books to the imperial court, ordered the collection of secret Pavilion, and granted official posts. Xue also relied on the two Zhejiang officials to write books. Although he was sued, he was a servant. Yao Xuan is the author of twenty volumes. He also collected articles from the Tang Dynasty and compiled them into 100 volumes, which was called Wencui. Wencui. (today it is called the quintessence of Tang Dynasty). Yao Xuanyou advocated Han Yu's and Liu Zongyuan's style of writing, which was another collection after Xiao Tong's selected works. Yao Xuan, Liu Kai and Mu Xiu pioneered the ancient prose movement in Song Dynasty. After Yao Xuan's death, his son Yao Sifu presented the books to the government and granted him the title of Yongcheng's master book. Yao Xuan's youngest son, Yao Xuan, said that he was pretty and good at words. He died young at the age of 10. Yao Xuan recorded his story as a Book of wisdom, which has been passed down by many people. He has 20 volumes of anthology.