Among Fan Zengxiang’s students in Qianjiang, there are two favorite students - "The guest house has been through autumn and winter, and reading often has two students." One is Suo Sheng, "This gentleman is noble and noble." (Suoyunfang). Fan Zengxiang wrote a poem "Making Tea with Suosheng on an Autumn Night". Tea-tasting poems are mostly found in Fan Zengxiang's poetry collection, which is an early work that testifies to his reputation for excellence. The teacher and the student were reading at night in late autumn. In order to keep warm and refresh themselves, they "blowed on the live copper flask" and cooked and drank hot tea. It’s just that Fan Zengxiang, who was financially strapped at the time, couldn’t afford the high-quality “official roasted” tea, so he could only “talk about expressing feelings over thin grass tea”. Because drinking too much tea affected his sleep, Fan Zengxiang looked at the moon in the middle of the night and meditated. He got out of bed, looked for paper and inkstones, and wrote down the chronicle poem that He Suosheng read at night while drinking tea. The other one is Gan Sheng, who "gives up everything" because he "loves reading".
In Fan's poem, it is said that Gan Sheng "is five years older than me, and I ask about strange characters." That is to say, Gan Sheng, who is older than Fan, holds the apprenticeship ceremony to Fan Zengxiang. Gan Sheng was Gan Shuchun, the father of Gan Pengyun, a late Jin Dynasty scholar in Qianjiang. At that time, he took his second son Gan Pengyun, who was about eight years old, to study at Chuanjing Academy. The reading place where Gan Sheng and Suo Sheng were studying was the poetry stage of "Lecture Room East". They were willing to be lonely and immersed themselves in reading. Accompanied by the morning bell of the nearby Fayun Temple, they had already gotten up, raised lanterns and unfolded scrolls. Fan Zengxiang taught in Qianjiang, and of course he hoped that his students would succeed in their studies. His poem "Qianjiang Lecture Hall Inscription on the Wall" goes: "Green moss grows in the abandoned courtyard, and wild flowers bloom in the two lonely rooms. The cursive calligraphy on the piano becomes a wandering residence, and the poems and poems are few and whimsical. Talent." Fan Zengxiang was good at the phonology of poetry. He once wrote a poem called "Collection of Poems of Recent People on Drama Titles" to guide students on the essentials of writing poetry. However, after several years of studying hard in the cold window, the purpose of the scholars in the county academy is to go to the province to take the triennial Autumn Provincial Examination and strive for the honor of being elected. At this time, Fan Zengxiang wrote the thirty-four-couplet "Farewell Gan Sheng Suo Sheng". Fan Zengxiang had high hopes for Gan Shuchun's success in the imperial examination, but his real glory in the imperial examination came a few years later when his second son Gan Pengyun was elected as a high school scholar and became a Jinshi. Shuchun's father honored his son and appointed him a Tongyi doctor. talk. Fan Zengxiang was deeply concerned about Suo Sheng, a disciple who lived in poverty: "I am leaving you to go home now, and I am thinking about where to leave you." On the eve of farewell, Fan Zengxiang and Gan Sheng Suo Sheng "faced each other with dim candles, and sat in silence until the morning." When crossing the river, I play the harp again and again. How sad is the heart of the harp, how deep the flowing water is! I can still hear the sound on the string after being separated for thousands of miles. "The sadness of the teacher and the student's farewell is vividly expressed! Because they have lived in Qianjiang for a long time, the people living near the lake also admire and get close to Fan Zengxiang, a "great intellectual". At this time, people also went out to see each other off, which made Fan Zengxiang feel very excited. Fan Zengxiang's four poems "Leave Eyuan to Farewell Qianjiang Fellows" were originally published in "The Chronicles of Qianjiang County in Guangxu".
The latest annotation published and collected Fan's poems in a relatively complete collection of "Fan Fanshan Poems" (2004 Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House). This poem is not included in the appendix of the Lost Poems, so it is regarded as a poem left by the young Fan Zengxiang to Qianjiang. A unique souvenir!