Xie An was the prime minister of which dynasty in China?

Xie An, alias Anshi, is the prime minister of Emperor Xiao of Jin Dynasty. He was praised as a teacher with outstanding achievements. He used to be a member of the preface to Wang Xizhi's Lanting Collection, and he sang and studied calligraphy with Wang Xizhi on weekdays. According to Shu Duan, Xie Jiao wrote cursive correctly. "Shu Zhi Fu" said that Xie An was "good at grass but honest and poor". Xie An's cursive script was very famous in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. A pair of couplets reads: "Xie Cao is blue, Yan Guishu, Tang poetry is golden in Chinese", in which "Xie Cao" seems to refer to Xie An's cursive script. For another example, Jiang Kui, a poet and calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, once said, "The Orchid Pavilion Collection" and the position of the right army come first, and Xie Anshi (that is, Xie An) and Daling took the post. "Visible Xie An calligraphy, especially cursive script, second only to Wang Xizhi.

Xie An is not only a great politician and strategist, but also a well-read person, and is known as the crown of celebrities in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Xie An is proficient in metaphysics and Confucian classics. The so-called "speaking clearly" was the ethos of social culture at that time. "Speaking clearly" is about philosophy and views on life and the world, which requires high cultural literacy. Xie An is also very cultivated in literature and art, and has made great achievements: he is good at poetry, and although there are not many poems left by later generations, they are all well written; He loves music and is proficient in music theory; He studied calligraphy under Wang Xizhi, a "book sage", and later generations regarded him as one of the calligraphers in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His comments on Gu Kaizhi's paintings are pertinent and insightful, and he is an expert in appreciating paintings. There is no doubt that Xie An is a very successful celebrity politician, a public figure and a star figure of his time. The world's admiration for all kinds of stars is no less than that of contemporary people. Two anecdotes about Xie An can be cited to illustrate: Xie An's fellow countryman was dismissed from office and returned to his hometown, lacking travel expenses, and only 50,000 cattail fans were around, making it difficult to change money. Xie An wanted to help him, so he just took a cattail leaf fan and used it in many public places. It's very chic. Soon, people rushed to buy cattail leaf fans, imitating Xie An's behavior. This fellow villager not only solved the urgent need, but also made a small fortune! More interestingly, even Xie An's physical defects have become the bright spot of people's envy and imitation. Xie An was born in Henan. He speaks with a northern accent, and with rhinitis, his tone is even thicker. It is said that he has a unique charm when he recites poetry in this tone. As a result, scholars scrambled to imitate Xie An's intonation, but they didn't learn it well, and even held their noses and spoke! Now there are often imitation shows on TV. It seems that Xie An is probably the first imitation show ever! Xie An lived in seclusion and as an official for about 20 years. When he lived in seclusion, he was a romantic celebrity. When he was an official, he was a romantic prime minister, which can be described as a romantic life. Wang Jian (479-502), a statesman of Qi State in the Southern Dynasties, once said, "The only prime minister in Jiangzuo is Xie An!" In the minds of China traditional literati, there is both the utilitarian side of governing the country, making a name for themselves and offering sacrifices to their ancestors after entering the WTO, and the elegant side of being born alone and yearning for seclusion. The combination of these two contradictory moods has formed a portrayal of the life of literati in past dynasties. They not only kept close contact with the secular world, but also attached their feelings to mountains and rivers, eulogizing the romantic life of hermits. Xie An lived in seclusion and never forgot his home country, and he never forgot the mountains and rivers for the officials. All these show that Xie An not only pursues personal spiritual freedom, but also does not shirk his due social responsibility. These two seemingly contradictory aspects, entering the secluded mountains and being an official, have reached the most ideal and desirable realm here in Xie An. No wonder Xie An will become a model that later scholars will always admire but can't reach.