When was Bao Zheng born?

Bao Zheng (April 11, 999—May 24, 162), born in Hefei, Luzhou (now Feidong, Anhui), was a famous incorruptible official in the Northern Song Dynasty of China.

Bao Zheng was a Shenke scholar in the fifth year of Renzong Tiansheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (127). He was first appointed as Jianchang County Magistrate, and he was a college student in Kaifeng, Yin and Longtuge. Because after he entered the Second Mansion and became a member of the highest decision-making body in the Northern Song Dynasty, his clothes, food and utensils were still "like clothes and cloth", and he was a typical representative of an honest and upright official in ancient China. As the folk proverb goes, "If you can't reach the joint, you will get old in Yamaraja." Later generations including Zhu Xi, Ouyang Xiu, Liu Chang and Sima Guang all had positive comments on Bao Zheng.

There is a newly renovated Baogong Temple in Hefei, China, and the existing Baogong Cemetery was rebuilt and opened to the public on October 1, 1987. And established the Hefei Baogong Research Association.

Bao family

According to the epitaph, Bao Zheng first had three wives, Zhang and Dong Shi (a son named Bao Mao died of illness two years after marriage), and later took him as a concubine with his wife, Sun Shi, and gave birth to a son Bao Wan (named Bao Wan by Bao Mao's wife Cui Shi in 158). Bao Gong also has two daughters. In addition, Dong Shi died in Hefei in 168 and was buried with Bao Zheng. Cui Shi died in 194 at the age of 62.

He died in Kaifeng in the seventh year of Jiayou, Song Renzong (162), and posthumous title "Bao Xiaosu". His wife, Dong Shi, handed over the draft of the prelude to his life to his protege Zhang Tian and compiled it into "Xiao Su Bao Gong Memorial", that is, "Bao Zheng Collection", which was handed down from generation to generation. He was buried in Hefei the following year and was epitaph by Song Shumi's assistant envoy Wu Kui (now in Anhui Museum).