Innocent Spring is a relic of Fan Zhongyan, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, when he learned about Yuezhou.
Fan Zhongyan (989— 1052) was born in Wuxian, Suzhou. Young and lonely, mechanics, Dazhong Xiangfu eight years (10 15) Jinshi, official, deputy envoy of the Council, political governor. Fan Zhongyan not only has political and military talents, but also has achievements in poetry and prose. The famous sentence in Yueyang Tower, "Worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later", has been quoted by people for thousands of years and has a wide influence. However, little is known about another masterpiece he wrote in Yuezhou-The uncrowned king.
Fan Zhongyan was in the era when the Northern Song Dynasty began to decline. After he became an official, he advocated reform and was famous for daring to speak. Therefore, he was excluded by conservative bureaucrats and demoted four times. In the sixth year of Tiansheng (1028), Fan Zhongyan was a captain of the Secret Pavilion. Later, I went out to meet Zhou Mu and moved to Suzhou. In the second year of Jingyou (1035), it was called Kaifengfu. The following year, he was demoted to Raozhou and moved to Runzhou. In the first year of Baoyuan (1038), Yuezhou was known. In the first year of Kangding (1040), he was called to Tianzhangge to know Yongxing Army. Later, he was transferred to Shaanxi as a transshipment ambassador and entered Longtuge as a bachelor. Shaanxi was appeased and recruited as an assistant. Li Qing spent three years (1043), called on Tang envoys and participated in government affairs. Li Qing has been accused of nepotism for five years, which is well known in Taizhou, Dengzhou, Hangzhou and Qingzhou. Zhedi died four years ago and was given the title of Minister of War. The Hall of Innocence was written by him in a well-known post in Yuezhou.
In November of the first year of Baoyuan in the Northern Song Dynasty (1038), Fan Zhongyan (989- 1057), who had just known his destiny, moved from Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) to Yuezhou (now Shaoxing). Two years ago, as a senior official and magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture, he wrote a letter mocking the current politics and criticizing Prime Minister Lv Yijian. He was wrongly recommended to lead his cronies, alienated the monarch and his subjects, was vilified, and was relocated again. On the way to Runzhou, I was forced to park my wife Li's coffin in Guazhou Temple because her beloved wife died. In his letter to his brother, he expressed great grief and indignation ... It was in this sad state of mind that Fan Zhongyan came to Yuezhou as an exile. Knowing that his official career is uncertain, he will not stay in Vietnam for a long time, but he still puts aside his personal grievances and joins politics.
Fan Zhongyan knows that the growth of talents is inseparable from education, so he appreciates the folk custom of attaching importance to reading in Vietnam. At the beginning of his tenure, he rushed to Xinchang and called on the famous scholar Shi Daidan (985 ~ 1042), calling him Mr. Shicheng rather than his name, and urging him to be the head of the newly established Jishan Academy. Shi is a famous family in Xinchang, and only 27 people were admitted to Jinshi in the Northern Song Dynasty. All five sons of Shi Daidan are outstanding. After Shi Daidan became a hilltop, "there were many people from all walks of life", and even Fan Taishou himself seriously went to the academy as a disciple. Fan also invited Li Gou, a famous scholar, thinker and friend of Fan in the Northern Song Dynasty with high prestige, to give lectures in Yuezhou from thousands of miles away.
During the Kangding period, the people of Yuezhou lived in poverty, and Fan Zhongyan sympathized with the lonely and sick and took various measures to help the poor. Shortly after his arrival, the grandson of Cao, an official in charge of household registration, taxation, land and finance, died halfway. Sun is an honest official, and his family is poor and young, so he can't handle the funeral. Fan Zhongyan took out his salary, arranged the funeral for Sun Zhongzhong, rented a big boat for his family, and sent an old and reliable official to escort Sun Zhongzhong's coffin and his family back to their hometown. Before leaving, considering the safety on the road, Fan Zhongyan wrote a poem for Sun Zhongzhong's family. The poem says: "Ten people carry a pan-giant state, which is warm and sad. If Guan Jin wants to be a surname, this is a lonely boat. "
In order to solve the problem of drinking water for the people, Fan ordered to dig an abandoned well under the west rock of the west pavilion of Penglai Pavilion in Wolong Mountain. The spring is sweet and white, and the summer is as light as ice, and the winter is like spring. Fan thinks that this spring is innocent, so it is named Innocent Spring. This spring site is still there. Fan Zhongyan has always been an honest official, and he is clean-handed, and he hates official corruption. In the inscription on the tombstone, Ouyang Xiu praised it as "a rare festival, which has nothing to do with wealth, poverty, reputation and happiness, but is interested in the world." It is called "Qingli New Deal" to lay off redundant staff, select talents and appoint people, reduce corvee, cultivate agriculture and mulberry, and repair military equipment to be a deputy government official (equivalent to prime minister). His teacher Du Yan is a famous innocent deputy prime minister. At that time, he was being framed, saying that he sold officials and titles, which damaged his reputation and implicated his students. All these made Fan Zhongyan deeply moved by the word "innocence", so he simply called his official residence "innocence hall", built a pavilion on its side, called innocence pavilion, and wrote an article "The Record of Innocence Hall in Huiji" to express his mind. This article was written in the first year of Song Kangding, five years earlier than the world-famous Yueyang Tower, but its idea of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later" has already begun to emerge, such as proposing that an honest official should be a teacher.
Most of Fan Zhongyan's articles are full of political and moral contents, so is the uncrowned king. In the second half of the article, the author said that according to the phenomenon of things changing, at the beginning, the well source was blocked and the well water was turbid and could not be drunk because it was not treated; Finally, the merit of dredging, the shaft is completed, without cover. It reflects Fan Zhongyan's political thought.
Then according to the Book of Changes, the article thinks that the place of virtue lies in "keeping it"; Jing Quan's significance lies in "giving without being selfish"; The image of a sage painting a well lies in "the way of a gentleman." Fan Zhongyan renamed "Liangtang" as "Innocent Hall" and built a pavilion beside the hall, because he loved the spring and it was "innocent and virtuous". It's called the Innocence Pavilion. At the end of the article, I hope: "How many people live in Sitang and climb into Siting, and there is no name for it!"
Fan Zhongyan has known Yuezhou for about a year and a half, but he has made great achievements in a short time. The people of Yuezhou appreciate their innocence and virtue. They once built "Xifan Pavilion" in Wolong Mountain and "EMI Model" in front of the government to commemorate it. Since the Song Dynasty, Innocent Spring and Innocent Hall, as facilities with profound educational and warning significance, have been preserved in Shaoxing Mansion for a long time.
Now the Innocent Pavilion in Wolong Mountain was rebuilt in 2006, and the pavilion hung: "Innocent plaque" was inscribed by Fan Zhongyan.