The Study On The Wang Family Of Raoyang In The Northern Song Dynasty

The Wang family of Raoyang in the Northern Song Dynasty is said to be one of the Wang family in Taiyuan.They moved to Raoyang,Shenzhou,Hebei Province(today's Raoyang County in Shenzhou City).Later,they took Wang Huaji,the founder of the Wang family of Raoyang,as their family and moved to Luoyang.Since then,the Wang family of Raoyang has stepped on the political stage of the Northern Song Dynasty,but this article's influential families of a prefecture still takes Raoyang as its ancestral place.The prosperity of Raoyang Wang family began from migration.After Wang Huaji entered the imperial examination,"because of the official for the family",the official to know the assistant administrator,He spoke and taught to his descendants,which made the Wang family prosper.Wang Juzheng,the son of Huaji,as the successor of Wang's family's sustainable development,after decades of efforts,finally took over the "Torch" of participating in political affairs and became the mainstay of Wang's family's reputation in the Northern Song Dynasty.Raoyang Wang family from the third and fourth generation Wang Huaji,Wang Juzheng "father and son participate in politics" to the fifth and sixth generations of Wang Zhao and Wang Shu "Serve as two capitals(East and West)";From the fifth generation of Wang Hui and Wang Shuo's saying that "when he went to Daliao,his real brothers were one after another" to the fifth and sixth generation of Wang Shuo and Wang Yu's saying that "he just kept Xiangzhou and Huazhou and crossed the river";From the fourth generation Wang Juyuan's "seven for transportation,with the reputation of holding weight" to the fifth generation Wang Zhao's "three for officials,to achieve its beauty",we can see that the descendants of Wang family have many sages!In the maintenance of the family,the Wang family also spare no effort.In terms of marriage and social intercourse,in the early stage,through intermarriage with the aristocratic family,they climbed to a high position to maintain the family.With the improvement of the family status,in addition to the marriage and friends with the official family,the marriage mode with the family characteristics has gradually emerged.There is also an intersection between the family's friendship and marriage,and the people they meet tend to be good family members.In terms of family style and writings,Wang's family members are filial to their elders and relatives,gentle and generous,loyal and patriotic.Among them,the family women are virtuous and virtuous,filial to their parents in law,and fond of reading.It can be seen that the prosperity and development of Raoyang Wang family is the result of various factors,but when the mainstay of the family is gradually declining,the decline of the family is natural.In this paper,the migration of Raoyang Wang family,the lineage,the life of family members,the official career,the family's marriage and friends,the family style and culture,and the members' writings are all collated and studied in order to supplement the lack and deficiency of Raoyang Wang family in the study of family history.