Xi Zheng, courtesy name Lingxian, was a Chinese essayist, poet, and politician of the state of Shu Han during the late Three Kingdoms period of China.
10 Facts About Xi Zheng
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Xi Zheng served as an official in the early years of the Jin dynasty.
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When Xi Zheng was still a boy, his father Xi Yi died.
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Xi Zheng was gifted in language and mostly self-educated in the fields of history and government, borrowing books and essays from literati throughout Yi Province.
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Xi Zheng entered government service as a clerk of the palace library, eventually rising to the rank of director over the course of 30 years.
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The powerful eunuch Huang Hao was ambivalent towards him, so Xi Zheng was able to avoid the factionalism that Huang Hao's rise to power engendered.
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Xi Zheng was one of five former Shu officials to be enfeoffed as marquises by the Wei government.
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Xi Zheng sought out Liu Shan and advised him that were he asked this again, the appropriate response was to lament how far he had been removed from his family tombs.
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In 273, Xi Zheng was appointed as the Administrator of Baxi Commandery, in present-day eastern Sichuan and northern Chongqing.