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Do you know any famous historical figures in the Northern Song Dynasty?
1. Bao Zheng

Bao Zheng was a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty. Honest, fair, resolute, independent, just, wise, and dare to redress grievances for the people, so it is called "Bao Qingtian", and the capital has the saying that "Yamaraja will provide for the aged if it fails to reach the alliance".

2. Wang Anshi

Thinker, politician, writer and reformer in the Northern Song Dynasty. Wang Anshi advocated a comprehensive reform of written law from the early Song Dynasty to get rid of the accumulated disadvantages in the Song Dynasty and reverse the situation of poverty and weakness. Taking Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, and Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, as an example, they only wanted to "escape from Henan" without seeking reform, and finally perished, demanding immediate reform of the written law. However, Renzong did not adopt Wang Anshi's thought of political reform.

3. Zhao Kuangyin

The founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. During the reign of Zhao Kuangyin, according to Prime Minister Zhao Pu's strategy of "South first, then North, first easy and then difficult", he devoted himself to unifying the whole country, and successively eliminated the southern separatist regimes such as Jingnan, Wuping, Houshu, Nanhan and Nantang, and completed the unification of most parts of the country. Zhao Kuangyin's "relieving the military power with a glass of wine" twice relieved the military power of the imperial generals and local buffer regions, thus solving the self-sufficiency situation of our local soldiers since the middle Tang Dynasty.

4. Su Shi

Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. His writing is arbitrary; His poems have a wide range of themes, are fresh and healthy, are good at using exaggerated metaphors and have a unique style. With Ouyang Xiu's repeated praise, Su Shi became famous for a while. Every time he publishes a new book, it will spread all over Beijing immediately.

5. Sima Guang

Politicians, historians and writers in the Northern Song Dynasty. After Anping presented King Sima Fu in the Western Jin Dynasty. Boasting that "the day is insufficient, the night follows", his personality can be called a model under Confucian education and has always been admired. Sima Guang's main achievements are embodied in his academic research. Among them, the greatest contribution is to preside over the compilation of Zi Tongzhi Jian.