A Study On The Wang Family Of Lincheng In The North Song Dynasty

Since the end of the primitive society,the kinship family has emerged and formed a closely related social group.The social system has changed with the innovation of the Tang and Song dynasties.The patriarchal clan had been ceased,which lived in before the Northern Song Dynasty,instead of the bureaucrat family.In the background of the reform of Tang and Song dynasties,the Wang family was one of the new families of the Northern Scholars who started from the imperial examination.In the early period of the five dynasties,the Wang family entered the Song Dynasty,and went through the wars and migrations.The Wang family originally came from Changshan,and then avoided the war.Wang Lin,the fourth ancestor of the family,moved to the Lincheng city of Zhaozhou in the period of the late Zhou Dynasty because of the reason of the official officials and his personal love for the graceful of the mountain forest.After that,his family was called Lincheng Wang.The first generation Wang Lin of Lincheng Wang family has established the foundation of the family development.The second generation of Wang Kou imperial examination entered the official office,the family rose;later its officials came to the centre governments,and the family grew to the peak.Not only did they associate with the famous and powerful people,but also married with the famous clan of the current generation.,such as Ning Jin Cao,Jing Zhaosong,Kaifeng Xiangshi and so on.These great family ties are linked,support each other,and jointly safeguard the reputation and status of the family.Until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty,the family multiplied to 6th generations.The Lincheng Wang family has been at its peak since the second generation,and the third generation Wang Zhenglu married Taikang Shen,but the family has lost its former glory,and the family began to decline.Even more,Wang Zhenglu couple did not bury their ancestors because their family was poor for 20 years.Fortunately,4th generations of Wang qu,Wang Shi and Wang yu were able to maintain the family's prestige.The three were close to brothers of Su,and Wang Shi and Wang Yu became Su shi's disciple.Wang Shi married Su's daughter.Su Shi's grandson married Wang Shi's daughter again,and two generations joined in marriage,and they keep a good friendship from generation to generation.Since Wang's members had no imperial examinations other than Wang and Wang Yu,there was no successor to the family.In addition,in the latter part of the Northern Song Dynasty,the party dispute intensified,and Wang qu just a lower officials,who has closely relationship with Sushi.Wang Shi and Wang Yu was died too early,who has followed with Sushi.Wang's ancestral tombs were originally in Changshan,and later Wang Yu moved them to the Erkouyuan of Longmen in Lincheng.After that,the members of the family who died as a result of official service or because of travelling abroad,regardless of the length of their death,without exception,were buried in their ancestral tombs.They returned to the place where they were born and raised.It also reflects the identity of the deceased to their hometown,the Confucian filial piety of their children and the family consciousness of hosting the burial of the scholars.From another perspective,it is precisely because of the existence of the ancestral tombs that the name of Wang Lincheng came into being.