Fan Zhongyan is two years old, lonely, poor and helpless. I have little ambition, and I take the world as my responsibility every time. I either study hard or stay out at night and need to face the water. If you don't give rice, just read porridge. As an official, every passionate talk about what's going on in the world is desperate. Even after being slandered, Dengzhou was protected by the government. Zhong Yan is hardworking, self-motivated and doesn't care about meat. His wife can only support herself. I often say to myself: "A scholar worries about the world first, and then enjoys the world."
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Fan Zhongyan lost his father when he was two years old, and his family was poor and helpless. He has great ambitions since he was a child, and he often takes it as his duty to govern the world. He studies very hard, and sometimes he is sleepy and tired at night, so he washes his face with cold water. Sometimes I can't even eat, so I just drink porridge and read books.
After becoming an official, he often talks about world affairs with emotion, regardless of his own safety. As a result, he was demoted as an official because of slanders and was demoted as a secretary of Dengzhou because of his involvement in political affairs. Fan Zhongyan tempered himself hard, eating little meat, and his wife and children were only self-sufficient in food and clothing. He often recites to himself, "We should be sad before everyone in the world is sad and enjoy it after everyone in the world is happy." . (This article was written by Ouyang Xiu)
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Fan Zhongyan (August 29, 989-1May 20, 052), a native of Wenqian, Han nationality, was a famous thinker, politician, strategist and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Fan Zhongyan lost his father when he was young, and his mother remarried Changshan Zhu, so he changed his name to Zhu Yue. In the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (10 15), Fan Zhongyan studied hard, awarded the manager of Guangde Army to join the army, welcomed his mother and changed his real name. Later, he served as Xinghua county magistrate, secret cabinet school supervisor, chief judge Zhou Chen, Suzhou well-known, and was reprimanded many times for being outspoken.
In the first year of Kangding (1040), together with Han Qi, they served as the deputy envoys of Shaanxi appeasement and zhaofu, and adopted the policy of "long-term reclamation" to consolidate the northwest frontier defense. In three years (1043), he took office as a political commissar and formulated ten reform measures in the book Reply to Letters and Ten Events of Chen.
In the fifth year of Li Qing (1045), the New Deal was frustrated, and Fan Zhongyan was demoted to Beijing, where he served as Yizhou, Dengzhou, Hangzhou and Qingzhou. You four years (1052), changed Zhizhou to Yingzhou, and Fan Zhongyan took office in Xuzhou and died here at the age of 64. Posthumous title is called the Palace.
Fan Zhongyan's political achievements are outstanding, and so are his literary achievements. His thought of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later" and his loyalty to people with lofty ideals have a far-reaching impact on future generations.