王莽是汉元帝王皇后的内侄,随其叔父走上仕途。汉平帝时,以外戚当上大司马,掌控了朝政。在西汉王朝,社会、经济矛盾十分严重时,王莽乘机取代了西汉王朝,建立了新莽王朝,并实行理想化的复古改制,结果反而加剧了各种矛盾,终于在农民起义的浪潮中走向灭亡。但是,两千年的历史却对王莽其人、其事存在着不同的认识与评价。 Wang Mang is the nephew of the queen of Hanyuan emperor, with his uncle on the career path. Han Pingdi, the relatives as a big Sima, control of the government. During the Western Han Dynasty, when the social and economic conflicts were very serious, Wang Mang took the opportunity to replace the Western Han Dynasty, established the New Mang dynasty, and practiced the idealized system of reorganization. As a result, it intensified various contradictions and eventually ended up in the peasant uprising . However, the history of two thousand years has different understanding and evaluation of Wang Mang and others.