Fan Zhongyan
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Fan Zhongyan was a Song Dynasty official, known for being the first to establish a "charitable estate," a collective group of members of his lineage who would work together to benefit fellow members of the lineage, and to work to ensure the strength, prosperity, and continuation of the lineage, even among very distant relatives. This was a pattern, or practice, which was soon taken up by other Chinese families, and which eventually became a rather widespread and common practice.
References
- Patricia Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, Second Edition, New York: The Free Press (1993), 155.
