Research Of Zhang Shixun

Zhang Shixun(964-1049),his other name was Shunzhi,he lived in the Yincheng of the Northern Sung Dynasty.He passed the imperial examinations into office in 992,mainly active in Zhenzong period and early Renzong period,official for more than 40 years,he has been a local officer for a long time,and occupied the prime minister thrice,he can be considered as a typical representative of the senior officials of the senior scholars in the middle and early period of the Northern Sung Dynasty.Zhang Shixun was born in a small bureaucratic family.At the time of his birth,the family has a problem with the lack of good heirs.He grew up with his aunt.He experienced the period of the Northern Sung Dynasty’s reunification war,and he entered the official career with Sung Taizong’s opportunity to expand the number of scholars.When he was a local official in his early years,he worked diligently and loved the people,paid attention to the people’s livelihood;Because of his outstanding performance,He was given the opportunity to assist the future emperor Renzong,and became his assistant official,reached the highest rank gradually;Although implicated by the political turmoil in the later period,after Renzong’s pro-governance,Zhang Shixun was treated with the superior treatment of Emperor Renzong.he was eventually resigned as a prime minister in his later years.He was the first person to win this honor in the Sung Dynasty.Zhang Shixun was born after the founding of the Northern Sung Dynasty,grew up in the new dynasty,during his official,the Northern Sung Dynasty literati political flourish.Investigating Zhang Shixun’s official experience is of great significance to the analysis of the political atmosphere in the middle and early period of the Northern Sung Dynasty,and the style of the official residence of the scholar-officials.