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Bao Zheng A native of Jingxian County in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was studious and chivalrous when he was young and lived in a large family under the principle of righteousness for over 80 years. A ganoderma grew in his study, so it was named "Zhi Hall". As there were ten thousand volumes of books in his family, it was also called "Ten - Thousand - Volume Hall". Bao Zheng (999 - 1062 AD) A famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty and a native of Hefei, Luzhou. He passed the imperial examination in the fifth year of the Tiansheng era (1027 AD) and successively served as an imperial censor, a scholar - attendant of Tianzhang Pavilion, a direct bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, and the vice - minister of the Privy Council. He was upright and unyielding in his official career and was well - known for his integrity, so people called him "Lord Bao the Heavenly Judge". When he was in charge of Kaifeng, he enforced the law extremely strictly. People said, "Even connections can't reach here; there's Lord Bao as unyielding as Yama." Someone presented a poem saying, "A fine trunk will finally become a beam; fine copper won't be made into a hook." After his death, he was posthumously titled "Xiaosu". Bao Xian (6 BC - 65 AD) A native of Kuaiji in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He studied under Doctor You Shi Xijun as a teenager, learning the Lu version of the Book of Songs and The Analects of Confucius. He served as a courtier and entered the palace to teach The Analects of Confucius to the crown prince. He finally rose to the position of Grand Herald. Bao Rong A native of Wuxing in the Tang Dynasty. He passed the palace examination and served as a scholar of the Jixian Academy. He was talented and famous and was collectively called one of the "Four Gentlemen of Wu" together with He Zhizhang, Zhang Xu, and Zhang Ruoxu.