Family Profile Bao Zheng is the thirty-fifth generation grandson of Shen, a loyal minister of Chu State (Epitaph of Bao Zheng, Biography of Bao Zheng in Song Dynasty, Tongzhi, Volumes 8-5). Grandpa Bao Shitong is a common people, studying and farming. His father was peaceful for eight years, rejuvenating the country and ordering me to be a scholar. He was an assistant minister of punishments. He worked in the Cabinet with Yan Wen Bo's father, Wen Yue, and became friends with their family. Therefore, Bao Zheng and Wen Yanbo were "scholars and close friends" and later married their children's in-laws. Father went back and forth to his hometown to be an official and gave it to Taibao. Mother Xuanshi, to Mrs. Fengxiang County.
Bao Zheng's three brothers, the eldest brother Bao Ying and the second brother Bao Ying, all died earlier, and he was the only one to carry on the family line. His family is well-off, so he was educated and edified by good traditional knowledge since he was a child.
Song Renzong Tiansheng was an official for five years (A.D. 1027). Bao Zheng was twenty-eight years old and admitted to Jinshi. The court appointed him as "Judge Dali", which is roughly equivalent to the current court jury, with a very low level.
Bao Zheng's film and television image (6 photos)
Then, he was appointed as the magistrate of Jianchang (now Yongxiu, Jiangxi). Because his parents were too old to go to Jiangxi with him, Bao Zheng had to give up his official position and stay at home to wait on his parents.
Later, the court appointed him as an official in Hezhou (now Anhui County) near his hometown, responsible for the management of tax money and food. This time, Bao Zheng went to his post, but because he was really worried about his parents staying at home, he only insisted on going home for a few months.
Bao Zheng left the countryside and went to Beijing to wait for a new office after his parents died. He stayed in an inn, stayed up late and studied hard, and wrote the only five laws in life: "A pure heart is the foundation, and the right path is the plan." Show dry eventually becomes a building, fine steel don't make a hook. The warehouse is full of mice and birds, and the grass is full of foxes and rabbits. History has a legacy, and people are shameless. "To the effect that a person should be aboveboard, just like beautiful wood should be the pillar of the house, fine steel should never be made of iron. I should be an honest official worthy of the teaching of history books.
You Jing for three years (1036), Bao Zheng was appointed as the magistrate of Tianchang (now Anhui Tianchang). There, he solved many strange cases fairly and won a good reputation as an honest official.
Edit this section of official performance table related to the five years of Tiansheng (1027): Dali evaluation, Jianchang (not going), and supervision of national tax (not going).
Six years of Jiayou (106 1 year): once served as assistant minister, third secretary, and Tang emissary of the Ministry of Rites.
Seven years of Jiayou (1062): history of rites (died in May).