What is the historical background of Ceng Gong, one of Tang Rong's Eight Masters? Thank god, help me.

Ceng Gong (1065438+September 30th, 2009-1April 30th, 083, August 25th, Tianxi 3rd-April 6th, Yuanfeng 6th 1 1 day) was called "Mr. Nanfeng". Han nationality, from Nanfeng, Jianchang (now Jiangxi), lives in Linchuan (now west of Fuzhou, Jiangxi). Sun of Zeng Zhiyao, son of Zeng. In the second year of Jiayou (1057), he was a scholar. Ceng Gong, a politician and essayist in the Northern Song Dynasty, was one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". He claimed to be "a Confucian scholar" (the first volume of Bachelor Ouyang), his grandfather was a doctor and his father was a doctor too often. Ceng Gong is very talented and has a good memory. When he was young, he read poetry books and could recite them. He and his brother Zeng Ye studied hard together and showed great talent from an early age. According to historical records, Gong "can speak at the age of twelve, and his language is amazing". His younger brother Zeng Zhao called him "born alert, not like a teenager" in "A Journey to My Dead Brother", and he had a superior memory, "reading tens of thousands of words and blurting it out". /kloc-when he was 0/8 years old, he went to Beijing to take the exam, met Wang Anshi, who was in Beijing with his father, and became close friends. At the age of 20, he entered imperial academy and wrote Ouyang Xiu, presenting "Current Affairs Policy". Ouyang Xiu appreciates his unique style of writing. Ouyang Xiu said: "There are hundreds of people who have passed our door, and they are happy to live alone." ("Bachelor Ouyang Er Shu") has been famous all over the world since then, but it has been tried and tested because it is good at planning and is lighter than the current article. In the seventh year of Li Qing (1047), his father died. As the second son (with a brother on it), he had to drop out of school and return to his hometown to serve his stepmother wholeheartedly. When Ceng Gong was a teenager, he and Wang Anshi were close friends. After boarding Ouyang Xiu's door, he recommended Wang Anshi to Ouyang Xiu. It was not until the second year of Jiayou (1057) that Ouyang Xiu presided over the examination, insisting on giving priority to ancient prose and strategy, supplemented by poetry and prose, that Ceng Gong and his brothers Zeng Mou, Ceng Bu and cousin Zeng Fu became the first scholar. In the fourth year of Jiayou (1059), he joined the army in Taipingfu (now dangtu county, Anhui Province) and was famous for his understanding of laws and regulations and appropriate sentencing. In the past five years, Ouyang Xiu recommended him to the capital for collating, recruiting talents, sorting out and collating a large number of ancient books, such as Warring States Policy, Shuoyuan, New Preface, Liang Shu, Tang Ling, Li Taibai Ji, Inclusive Poems, Biography of Women, etc., and made many books of past dynasties. In the second year of Xining (1069), he was a proofreader of A Story of Song Yingzong, and was soon released to Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) to serve his sentence. He has worked in Xining for five years, and has successively served as well-known person, Xiangzhou, Hongzhou, Fuzhou, Mingzhou and Bozhou. Honest and honest, diligent in political affairs, concerned about people's livelihood. He implemented the new law according to Wang Anshi's purpose and actual situation. Committed to rehabilitating unjust imprisonment, maintaining social order, cracking down on strongmen, disaster relief and epidemic prevention, dredging river bridges, setting up post stations, restoring cities, setting up schools, cutting official documents, rectifying official management, and abolishing exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees, it was well received by the masses. For three years (1080), Yuan Feng was appointed as the Zhizhou of Cangzhou (now Hebei). When passing through Kaifeng, Song Shenzong summoned him. Song Shenzong appreciated his suggestion that "saving is the key to financial management" and stayed in a tertiary hospital. In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, the court thought that "Ceng Gong should be a scholar in compiling the history of the Five Dynasties", appointed him as a historian, edited the courtyard, and sentenced the Taichang Hall as a ritual. In the fifth year of Yuanfeng, he worshipped Zhongshu Sheren. In September of the same year, he was mourned by his mother and went to the official. The following year, he died in jiangning house (now Nanjing). Buried in the right of Nanfengyuan Chongjue Temple. The Southern Song Dynasty was called "Wen Ding" and "Mr. Nanfeng". He is also one of the eight masters in Tang and Song Dynasties.