1043, Cai Xiang, 2 1 year-old, began to preside over the office of the suggestion institute. Cai Xiang works seriously and never evades questions. Everything presented to the emperor is sincere, almost all about the pros and cons of the world. In his view, as a monarch, you need to have the ability to know people and make good use of them and distinguish between good and evil. It is precisely because of Cai Xiang's honest and rigorous style that those powerful people with malicious intentions are afraid of Cai Xiang and dare not take action. Later, Cai Xiang was transferred to Fuzhou. During his tenure, Cai Xiang wrote an article urging Fuzhou people to seek medical treatment if they are sick, instead of asking witches to worship, and advocated planting camphor trees on both sides of the 700-mile avenue from Dayi, Fuzhou to Quanzhou and Zhangzhou. 1048, Cai Xiang's father died and Cai Xiang left. Three years later, he returned to North Korea to participate in politics. Later, when Cai Xiang went to Fuzhou again as a well-known person, he served as a well-known person in Quanzhou twice. During his stay in Quanzhou, Cai Xiang built cities in coastal counties to strengthen military preparedness. When there was a drought in Quanzhou, Cai Xiang mobilized private resources to strengthen water source management, and specially formulated the Guihu Pond Regulation to stop water disputes. Starting from 106 1, Cai Xiang is in charge of government finance. At that time, the imperial court could not make ends meet, but with Cai Xiang's excellent financial management ability, the imperial court resumed its economy. Later, Emperor Yingzong succeeded to the throne, fearing Cai Xiang's financial management ability, and letting him continue to be in charge of the government's finances. However, when Cai Xiang advocated reform to Yingzong, and was rejected and dismissed by Yingzong, Cai Xiang chose Westernization. So Cai Xiang served as the year of Hangzhou. A.D. 1066, Cai Xiang returned from his mother's death. A year later, Cai Xiang died at home and was posthumously awarded as an assistant minister of the official department by the court.
Cai Xiang was not only a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty, but also a calligrapher. In fact, Cai Xiang is one of the four great calligraphers in the Northern Song Dynasty, with the same fame as Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and Mi Fei. It can be seen that Cai Xiang's calligraphy is worth mentioning. There are many calligraphy works handed down from generation to generation by Cai Xiang, and he has also made his own contribution to agricultural science. Cai Xiang wrote two books, Litchi Spectrum and Tea Story. Litchi Spectrum is the earliest monograph on litchi cultivation in the world. This book should have been written by Cai Xiang when he was in Fujian. Litchi Book records the richness and sales of litchi in Fujian, the uses, cultivation methods, storage and processing methods of litchi, and also records the types and producing areas of litchi in No.32 Middle School.
Tea Story is a book about ancient tea drinking culture and a famous monograph on tea science. Cai Jing wrote this book to recommend Beiyuan tribute tea to the emperor because he felt that Lu Yu's Tea Classic was not the best in Jian 'an. The Book of Tea is also the most influential tea culture work after the Book of Tea. Cai Xiang's Tea Record has played an important role in promoting the development of Fujian tea culture, and it is precisely because of Cai Xiang's promotion that many good teas in Fujian can be known to the general public. Cai Xiang also has a book "Cai Zhongxiang's Collection", which contains the masterpiece "An Wan Qiao Ji", including Cai Xiang, as well as the book trace "Xie Tattoo Imperial Poetry" and some manuscripts. Some famous calligraphy works of Cai Xiang are basically included here. In addition, Cai Xiang also has Ji Dan, Tea Fruit, Tale of Litchi, Mopu, Tan Chunqiu and Zuo Zhuan Shu, which are handed down to later generations. Cai Xiang is most famous for his achievements in calligraphy, but Cai Xiang also wrote many poems in his life. But in terms of poetry, Cai Xiang doesn't seem to be very famous. So what are Cai Xiang's poems? There are 4 19 Cai Xiang poems handed down now, which shows Cai Xiang's profound literary attainments. Cai Xiang's poetry collections include Ying Zhi in Shang Yuan, Ten Sleepwalking Poems by Luo Zhong, Spring Day, Memories of Bamboo with Huang Jiefu, Dream, Qiu Si and so on.
Cai Xiang's poem is very famous, which happened in 1036. At that time, Fan Zhongyan was exiled to Raozhou because of a dispute with Prime Minister Lv Yijian. For Fan Zhongyan's demotion, most people in the DPRK wrote to the emperor to modify the imperial edict or demote with Fan Zhongyan, but Gao Ruoyi, who was an admonisher at that time, said nothing about it, so Cai Xiang attacked Gao Ruoyi with the poem "Four Sages and One Greedy Son". Cai Xiang's poems were widely circulated in Tokyo, and some people sold them and wrote them on the wall. Even the visiting envoys of the Liao Dynasty secretly bought this poem "Four Sages and One Unfortunate" and brought it back to the Liao Dynasty. From then on, Cai Xiang's poems became famous. Among Cai Xiang's poems, there is a seven-character poem "A Dream" written in 1047: It's cloudy with heavy rain, and it's sunny in front of the building. Where is the Songyang layman today? Wan Li sees human feelings. The first two sentences describe the scene in the air. First, the dark clouds contain rain, and then the red sun reflects the mountains. This is a completely different scene, echoing the title of Dream. Because it was done in a dream, all seemingly unreasonable scenes became normal performances. The last two sentences are about Cai Xiang's nostalgia for the hermit in Songshan, to show the lack of people who are indifferent to fame and fortune and their desire for seclusion.
Cai Xiang was a famous calligrapher, politician and tea scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty. Cai Xiang has made many achievements in politics. When he was the magistrate of Quanzhou, he built Luoyang Bridge in Quanzhou, which is the earliest existing cross-sea beam stone in China. Cai Xiang also has high attainments in tea science. His book Tea Science summarizes the experience of making and tasting tea in ancient times. Cai Xiang's Litchi Tree is regarded as the world's first book on fruit tree taxonomy.