Pre-Qin 先秦 Shang Yang 商鞅

商鞅（约前395年-前338年），汉族，卫国（今河南安阳市内黄梁庄镇一带）人。战国时期政治家、思想家，先秦法家代表人物。又称卫鞅、公孙鞅。商鞅应秦孝公求贤令入秦，说服秦孝公变法图强。孝公死后，受到秦贵族诬害以及秦惠文王的猜忌，车裂而死。其在秦执政二十余年，秦国大治，史称"商鞅变法"。
Shang Yang (around 395BC - 338 BC), also known as Wei Yang and Gongsun Yang, was of the Han nationality , and was an important statesman, thinker and legal thinker of the Warring States Period of Chinese history. Born in the State of Wei (now Huangliangzhuang town, Anyang city, Henan province) and with the support of Duke Xiao of Qin, Yang enacted numerous reforms while creating a militarily powerful and strongly centralized kingdom. Deeply despised by the Qin nobility and distrusted by King Huiwen, Yang was said to have been executed by being fastened to five chariots and torn to pieces following the death of Duke Xiao of Qin. His changes to the State's legal system, known as the Shang Yang Reforms, propelled the Qin to prosperity during his 20 plus years in power.
主要成就：商鞅变法。
Major achievement: Shang Yang Reforms
代表作品：《商君书》
Representative work: The Book of Lord Shang