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Name: Su Che

Character: Ziyou, same as uncle

No.: Yingbin Yilao

Posthumous title: Wen Ding

Nationality: Chinese

Ethnicity: Han

Era: Southern Song Dynasty< /p>

Place of birth: Meishan, Meizhou, Sichuan

Date of birth: 1039 AD

Date of death: 1112 AD

Father: Su Xun

Brother: Su Shi

Occupation: Writer, politician, poet

Main achievements: One of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, together with his father Su Xunhe The elder brother Su Shi is called "Three Su"

Main works: "Luancheng Collection", "Collected Poems", "Longchuan Chronicles", "Analects of Confucius", "Ancient History"

In the second year of Renzong Jiayou's reign, Su Che took the imperial examination and became a high school Jinshi along with his brother Su Shi, which became a good talk for a while. However, before the imperial court could appoint him as an official, Su Che had to return home for the funeral because of his mother's death. According to ancient regulations, mourning parents must observe mourning for three years, during which they are not allowed to serve as officials. Therefore, it was not until the three-year filial piety period expired that Su Che began to enter officialdom.

At first, he served as an official in the Daming Prefecture. Later, Song Shenzong began to implement new laws. Su Che wrote to Emperor Shenzong that the historical laws were immutable, and he strongly opposed the new laws implemented by Wang Anshi. Therefore, in the fifth year of Xining, he was assigned as an official and served as a promotion official in Henan.

Not only Su Che opposed Wang Anshi's new law, his brother Su Shi also opposed Wang Anshi's new law. The ups and downs of Su Shi's official career throughout his life were all related to the new law.

In the second year of Yuanfeng, Su Shi was impeached, saying that the poems he wrote had the meaning of slandering the imperial court and insinuating the imperial situation. Su Shi was therefore arrested and imprisoned for the crime of "slandering the imperial court." After Su Shi was arrested, Su Che wrote to the emperor, hoping to exchange his official position for his brother's safety, and begged Shenzong to release Su Shi.

Song Shenzong not only rejected Su Che's request, but he himself was implicated and demoted to supervise the salt and wine tax in Junzhou.

In the eighth year of Yuanfeng, the new party was weak and the old party was in power. Su Zhe returned to his loyalty to political power and served as secretary of the Provincial School Secretary and You Sijian. , Minister of household affairs. In the fourth year of Yuanyou's reign, he was appointed by Zhezong of the Song Dynasty as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and sent as an envoy to Khitan.

After his mission to Khitan, he was appointed as Yushi Zhongcheng. Later, he paid homage to Shangshu Youcheng, became a minister, and took charge of the government.

After Empress Dowager Gao passed away and Song Zhezong came to power, he once again appointed new party members. Su Che still opposed the new law and wrote to Zhe Zong many times to explain the current situation. His opposition to the new law aroused Song Zhezong's dissatisfaction, and he was demoted to Ruzhou and Yuanzhou as magistrates.

In the third year of Chongning, Su Che settled in Yingchuan and lived a pastoral and secluded life. He built a house called "Yilao Zhai" and named himself "Yingbin Yilao". He devoted himself to reading, writing, and meditating in meditation. In the second year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Che died in Xuchang. After his death, he became a bachelor of Duanming Palace and was given the posthumous title Wending.

Su Che's "Three Essays on Distinguishing Evil from Righteous Zhazi": "If you can promote the sincerity of your heart and add it to the unceasing writing, then the heaven and the earth can move, and the metal and stone can be moved." "Han Taiwei's Letter to the Privy Council" : "Literature is shaped by qi. However, writing cannot be learned and mastered, but qi can be cultivated.

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