The Biography of Tang Caizi , translated by Wang Han, Zhang Shuo, Wu Yun, Wang Wan, and Cui Hao

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Meticulously cut, meticulous and delicate, as bright as pearls and shells. At that time, Wenlin's peers respected him. In the imperial examination, he was awarded the position of school secretary and county lieutenant of Lantian (now Shaanxi).

In the nineteenth year of Zhenyuan (803), Liu Zongyuan was appointed to supervise the imperial history.

After Tang Shunzong became emperor, Wang Shuwen and Wei Zhiyi took power, and especially attached great importance to the appointment of Liu Zongyuan, and quietly introduced him and the superintendent Lu Wen into the forbidden palace to discuss major matters with them. Liu Zongyuan was transferred to a member of the Shangshu Rite Department. Wang Shuwen wanted him to be a big official, but soon after taking office, Wang Shuwen failed, and Liu Zongyuan and seven of his peers were demoted.

Liu Zongyuan was demoted to the assassin of Shaozhou (now Baoqing, Hunan), and on the way to his post, he was demoted to Sima of Yongzhou (now Lingling, Hunan). Liu Zongyuan was degraded, in the southern barbarian miasma, in a rugged and blocked environment, with the feelings of depression in the sao people, so the lyrical narrative, as long as the pen is moved, the article must be walked. There are more than 10 articles in the style of commotion, and the people who read them are moved and sad.

In the tenth year of Yuanhe (815), Liu Zongyuan was moved to Liuzhou (now Guangxi) as the history of the assassination according to the old practice. At that time, Langzhou Sima Liu Yuxi was moved to Banzhou (now Zunyi, Guizhou) Assassin History, when the edict was issued, Liu Zongyuan said to the people close to him: "Liu Yuxi has an old mother, he is old, and now he wants to go to the Barbarian Yuan County to do the history of the assassination, in the southwest of the region, there are tens of thousands of miles back and forth, how can he go with his mother."

If the mother does not go, the mother and the child are on one side, and this becomes a farewell. Yu Xi and I are good friends, how can I bear to see his mother and son like this? So he drafted a chapter and asked to grant Liuzhou to Liu Yuxi, but he went to Banzhou to take office.

It happened that Pei Du also asked to take care of Liu Yuxi's mother and son, so Liu Yuxi finally changed his title to Lianzhou (now Lianxian, Guangdong) to assassinate him.

Liuzhou custom, using a man or woman as collateral to borrow money, if the money is not repaid after the expiration date, the hostage will be confiscated by the money owner. When Liu Zongyuan arrived in Liuzhou, he got rid of this custom. For those men and women who had been confiscated by the money owners, Liu Zongyuan redeemed them with his own private money and returned them to their parents.

Between the Yangtze River and Lingnan, all those who want to be admitted to the Jinshi are thousands of miles away to follow Liu Zongyuan and worship him as a teacher. Anyone who has been instructed by Liu Zongyuan will definitely become a celebrity. Liu Zongyuan wrote a lot, and his reputation shook at that time, when his name was "Liuzhou".

He is the author of 40 volumes of anthologies. He died on October 5 in the 14th year of Yuanhe (819) at the age of forty-seven. Pei Xingli helped Liu Zongyuan with the funeral and escorted his wife and son back to Jingshi, and people at the time praised him for his righteousness.

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