1. In the second year, government affairs were smooth, people's hearts were harmonious, and all kinds of waste industries were set up. So Yueyang Tower was rebuilt.
2. From: "Yueyang Tower" Song Dynasty: Fan Zhongyan
3. Background:
Fan Zhongyan (989- 1052) was born in Gong Ji, Fan Wenzheng, and Wuxian, Suzhou (now Wuxian, Jiangsu), a politician, strategist and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. Yueyang Tower is located at the foot of Baqiu Mountain in the northwest of Yueyang City, Hunan Province. It is three stories high and faces Dongting Lake. Its predecessor was the parade platform of Lu Su, commander-in-chief of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. In the fourth year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (7 16), it was said that a pavilion named Yueyang Tower was built in the former site of the parade platform, and he often went upstairs with the scribes to write poems.
4. the author:
Fan Zhongyan (989- 1052), a native of Wenqian, Han nationality, was a famous politician, thinker, strategist and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was called "Duke of Fan Wenzheng". Fan Zhongyan has a high literary accomplishment and wrote the famous Yueyang Tower.
5. Central idea:
This paper narrates the origin of the incident, and by describing the scenery of Yueyang Tower and the different feelings of the poets who moved to the building to see the scenery, expresses their broad-minded mind of "not being happy with things, not being sad for themselves" and their political ambition of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later".