Li Shangshi, Han nationality, born in September of the lunar calendar 1942, is from Dongyu Village, Monan Town, Ruicheng County, Shanxi Province. 1963 graduated from Yuncheng Kang Jie High School and dropped out of school due to family problems. After returning to China, I worked as a farmer and a private teacher, and 1978 became a middle school teacher. 1987 at the invitation of professor Li mengcun, director of the research office of Jin history of Shanxi normal university, he studied the history of Jin in his spare time. Later, with the support of the leaders of Yuncheng City and Ruicheng County Education Bureau, he gave up teaching as a special researcher in the Jin State History Research Office of Shanxi Normal University. He has published more than ten academic papers, and collaborated with Professor Li Mengcun to write two monographs, History of Jin State and Biography of Jin State, with nearly 800,000 words. Among them, The History of the State of Jin won the second prize of the fourth outstanding achievement of social sciences in Shanxi Province. In 2008, he published the academic monograph "Two Brilliant Periods of Pre-Qin and Three Jin Dynasties and the Thought of Governing the Country". He is currently a member of China Pre-Qin Historical Society, a member of China Popular Literature Research Association, a director of Linfen Sanjin Cultural Research Association, and a special researcher of Hedong Cultural Research Center.