Wang Anshi should not be a strange name to you. His 1 are in your textbooks. You might be asked to 2 that he was one of the " eight great masters of the Tang and Song dynasties. "But how much do you know about him?This is the 1000th anniversary of his 3 .
Wang was very 4 in literature（文学）. He created a lot of poems , and prose. He was very active in the reformative（改革的） movement of poems as 5 as Ouyang Xiu.
More than that, Wang was a great politician. At 21, he passed the imperial examination. After that, he worked as a local official in different posts 6 20 years.
Later, he became the prime minister（宰相） and 7 many reforms. He suggested the government reduce farmers' burdens（负担）. He also asked to found schools to train talents in different 8 .
The reforms succeeded for a while. But they harmed the 9 of the upper（上面的） class and failed in the end.
10 , Wang's spirit of making changes inspires（鼓舞） people. Russia's revolutionary leader Lenin praised（表扬） him as the reformer of the 11th century in China.
