When Fan Zhongyan wrote this article, he was demoted from his official position and "stayed away from the rivers and lakes" from now on. He could have taken an independent attitude and ended up in leisure and happiness, but he put forward the principle that an upright scholar-bureaucrat should stand firm and do his own thing well.
He believes that the promotion of personal honor and disgrace can not be ignored. "Worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later" is commendable, and it is also an encouragement to yourself and your friends.
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For more than 70 years from Song Jianguo to Renzong, people adhered to their ancestors' family laws and followed their politics, and various crises lurked behind the glitz and extravagance. Fan Zhongyan broke the situation of poverty and weakness in the Northern Song Dynasty, attached importance to the political enlightenment of articles, and advocated that articles were an important organic part of politics, which was related to the mellow social customs and the success or failure of the country.
Under the influence of the thought of saving the country by running the country, Fan Zhongyan opposed the soft prose in the early Song Dynasty and put forward the literary thought of restoring ancient ways by studying classics, saving the quality of literature and enriching its weathering.
Fan Zhongyan's articles based on politics rather than literature have the same historical significance and retro spirit as Yang Xiong, Wang Bo, Liu Han and the theory of retro literature in the early Song Dynasty, which has played a positive role in the innovation of literary style in the early Song Dynasty.
Fan Zhongyan's Keep pace with the Times inherits Liu Xie's viewpoint of "doing things for feelings" and Bai Juyi's thought of "doing things for times", and organically combines political education with doing things for feelings. Fan Zhongyan criticized the blind imitation and moaning in the poetry circle in the early Song Dynasty, and advocated that poetry creation should be loyal to the reality of life, conform to current events and not empty talk.