Is Bao Gong a real historical figure or is it apocryphal?

Of course, it is a historical figure, and there is a Bao Gong Temple in Hefei.

Bao Zheng is honest and fair, resolute and resolute, not attached to the powerful, iron-faced selfless, and wise and decisive, dare to apply for the people's grievances, so there is "Bao Qingtian Town Oak" and "Bao Gong" name, Jingshi has "the joint is not enough, there is Yama Bao Lao" words, later generations will worship him as a god, think that he is the reincarnation of Kuixing, because of the folk legend of its black-faced image, also known as Bao Qingtian.

Bao Zheng was born in the second year of Xianping of Song Zhenzong (999), and was admitted to the Jinshi examination in the fifth year of Tiansheng of Song Renzong (1027), and was appointed as a judge of Dali and served as the magistrate of Jianchang County (now Yongxiu, Jiangxi).

Due to the old age of his parents, Bao Zheng asked for a job near Hefei at the imperial banquet, so he was reappointed as a tax supervisor in Hezhou (now Hexian County, Anhui), and his parents did not want him to leave, so Bao Zheng resigned from his official position and went home to support his parents. A few years later, his parents died one after another, Bao Zheng built a grass hut next to the tomb of his parents, until the end of the mourning period, he still hesitated and couldn't bear to leave, and his fellow villagers came to comfort and encourage him many times. It was not until the fourth year of Jingyou (1037) that Bao Zheng went to Beijing to listen to the election and was awarded the magistrate of Tianchang (now Anhui).

Bao Gong in history is a fair, not afraid of the powerful, not selfish people, Bao Duan regret Gong (Northern Song Dynasty Qing official Bao Zheng) generally refers to Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng is honest, filial piety, fair, resolute, not attached to power, prudent and noble, and wise and decisive, dare to redress grievances for the people.

Bao Gong has the name of "Bao Qingtian" and "Bao Gong", and Jingshi has the saying "If the joint is not reached, there is Yan Luo Bao Lao". Later generations worshipped him as a god, believing that he was the reincarnation of Kuixing, and was also known as "Bao Qingtian" because of his black-faced image among the folk.

He is an iron-faced selfless and selfless person, who is very fair in everything, and is trusted and respected by the people.

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