Where is Guan Zhong's hometown?

Guan Zhong's hometown is Tianfu Garden in Dengfeng City.

Guan zhong (? -645 years ago), a native of Tianfu, Dengfeng, was named Yi Wu. In the word, the year of birth and death is unknown. According to legend, he is a descendant of Ji. The record in Biography of Historical Records and Yan Guan is "Guan Zhong, a foreigner and a hero". Yingshang is the upper reaches of Shui Ying or Yingshang, which is now Xiatian Garden at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain in the western suburbs of Dengfeng City.

Guan originated in Guo Guan, now Guancheng District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. Records of the Historian, Volume 35, Guanjia No.5 records: Destroying the Shang Dynasty, sealing his third brother and uncle Xian (now Zhengzhou City), establishing, the history is called Xian. King Wu died, Guan Shu rebelled, was defeated and killed, and was abolished after running the country for less than six years. After Guo Guan was abolished, Zhou Chengwang moved to Guan Shu in eleven years, and his youngest son became Dr. Lun Yi. "Guo Lun" is the kingdom of Xia Dynasty, located in Tianfu Garden in the western suburb of Dengfeng, which is the "upper reaches of Shui Ying" and the source of Shui Ying.

Yingdi was the fief of Uncle Ying Kao, a doctor of Zheng in the Spring and Autumn Period, which is now Angelababy Town, Dengfeng City. Shui Ying originated in Shaoshi Mountain in Dengfeng City, Henan Province, that is, He Ying in Dengfeng, and finally merged into Huaihe River in Yingshang County, Anhui Province, stretching for hundreds of miles. "Yingshang" refers to the upper reaches of Shui Ying or Yingshang, which is now Tianfu Garden, the birthplace of Shui Ying, at the southern foot of Shaoshi Mountain in Dengfeng City, Henan Province. It was not Yingshang, Anhui (Yingshang County, Zhoushenyi County, Qinshen County, and Yingshang in the second year of Sui Daye (AD 606), so Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty could not know what happened eight hundred years later). As the birthplace of Shui Ying, Dengfeng is undoubtedly in the upper reaches. Since Dengfeng, the dialect of "intelligent management but not intelligent management" has been circulating.

Guan Zhong studied hard since he was a child, knowing poetry and good books, knowing etiquette and being rich in knowledge. Guanzhong's family has fallen in the road. In order to make a living, Guan Zhong became a businessman, saw a lot of the world and accumulated rich social experience. Guan Zhong has a good friend named Bao. Guan Zhong "often travels with Bao and knows his sages." Guan Zhong worked as a junior official for three times and was dismissed. Bao thinks this is because people are not smart, not because Guan Zhong has no talent. Later, Guan Zhong and Bao became the masters of Gongsun Jiu and Qi respectively. In the early Spring and Autumn Period, Qi Xianggong lived a dissolute life, and his disciples fled abroad. Gongzi fled to Lu for a long time with the help of Guan Zhong, and Gongzi fled to Ju with the help of Bao.

After he acceded to the throne, he intended to appoint Bao as the prime minister, but Bao strongly refused and recommended Guan Zhong. Qi Huangong asked in surprise, "Don't you know that he is my enemy?" Bao replied that Guan Zhong was a genius in the world, so he suggested to bury the hatchet and turn an enemy into a friend. Now forgive his sins and entrust him with a heavy responsibility, and he will be loyal to Qi. At Bao's suggestion, he eagerly chose an auspicious day and personally went to the grand ceremony to meet Guan Zhong. Qi Huangong appointed Guan Zhong as Shangqing (equivalent to prime minister).

After Guan Zhong came to power, he carried out a series of reforms. It is advocated that "the establishment must be abolished, the meritorious service must be rewarded, and the guilty must be punished", "the punishment does not avoid the new" and "the judge can grant the official". In selecting talents among the common people, Guan Zhong took the lead in implementing the Shang Xian policy, and personally recommended Ning Qi, who was a cowherd, to work in a big company, making Ning Qi the right-hand man of Qiang Bing, a rich country in Qi Huangong. Guan Zhong put forward the famous people-oriented thought of "knowing courtesy in a granary, being honored and disgraced by food and clothing", and regarded propriety, righteousness, honesty and shame as "the four dimensions of a country". Guan Zhong attached great importance to the development of agriculture, and put forward the progressive proposition that "the people can't make a living, the people can't make a living, and the cows can be satisfied without sacrifice". Let farmers feel at ease in agricultural production. He encouraged people to participate in overseas trade, expand exchanges, promote commodity circulation, and make Liu Guo's economy develop rapidly. Guan Zhong also proposed for the first time to divide the population into four social groups according to people's occupations, which had a great influence on later generations.

Guan Zhong is the first politician in the world who achieved the goal of enriching Qiang Bing by attracting investment. Guan Zhong took the lead in implementing the preferential policy of attracting investment in Qi, which not only made businessmen come in droves, but also made them live and work in Qi. Guan Zhong also put forward the strategy of realizing the hegemony of the Central Plains to Qi Huangong, and played the banner of "respecting the king and rejecting foreign countries", which opened the road to the hegemony of annexing vassals and unifying China.

With Guan Zhong's assistance, Qi Huangong presided over three armed alliances and six peace alliances, and also assisted the royal family 1 time, and was known as "nine princes, conquering the world". Qi became the most powerful country at that time. Guan Zhong made immortal contributions to the establishment of hegemony and was honored as "Guan Zhong" by Huan Gong.

After 40 years of Guan Zhong's governance, Qi developed from a small coastal country, and finally "nine kings ruled the world together", making Qi Huangong the first overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period.

In 645 BC, Guan Zhong was seriously ill. Qi Huangong went to visit him and asked him who could take his place. Qi Huangong wanted to be Bao, and Guan Zhong said sincerely, "Bao is a gentleman, but he knows good and evil too well. He saw an evil man and will never forget him all his life. It is impossible to become a politician. " He recommended a friend, expensive, honest, and obsessed with business at home. Someone listened to Guan Zhong and ran into Bao Shu's teeth to provoke. Bao smiled and said, "Guan Zhong's recommendation shows that he is dedicated to serving the country and has no selfishness towards his friends." The informer realized Guan Zhong's friendship and the secret of knowing people, and left despondently. Therefore, there is a saying that "make friends since ancient times and learn from Guan Bao". "Friendship in Guan Bao" has also become a warning for making friends.

Later generations collected Guan Zhong's works under the guise of his masterpiece Guan Zi. Guanzi is listed as one of the 100 books that influenced China by some experts and scholars.