阳城,字亢宗,唐陕州夏县(今属山西)人,祖籍定州北平(今河北顺平)。一生与世无争,好学乐施,以忠义卓行称著,因此被民间尊为福神。阳城小时便聪颖好学,却因家贫买不起书。他听说县里的集贤院里有很多藏书,便到那里去做工,一边干活,一边借书读。六年以后,经史子集,无所不通,后来考取了进士,被任命为右谏议大夫。后因得罪了权贵,遭到陷害,开始被贬到陕州(今河南三门峡市陕州区)当刺史,接着又被调到偏远 Yangcheng, the word Kangzong, Tang County, Shaanxi (now Shanxi) people, ancestral home Dingzhou Peking (now Hebei Shunping). Life and the world, studious to Oxfam, Loyalty and Excellence said, so was honored as a god of the people. Yangcheng hours smart and studious, but can not afford books because of poor family. He had heard that there were many books in the Hsian Hsien Hospital in the county, where he went to work and work while borrowing books. Six years later, the history of the sub-set, omnipotent, and later admitted to the jinshi, was appointed doctor of right admonition. After the guilty of the guilty of the powerful, was framed, began to be relegated to Shan Zhou (Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, Shanzhou District) when the provincial governor, and then was transferred to remote