Yueyang Loupian goes beyond the narrow scope of simply writing landscape architecture, and combines the dark changes of nature, rain or shine, and the feeling of seeing things, thus focusing on discussing political ideals and expanding the realm of the article.
Full-text narration, scenery description, lyricism and discussion are integrated, and the combination of static and dynamic, contrast between light and dark, concise words and harmonious syllables make it an innovation of miscellaneous notes to compare scenes with couplets.
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This article was written in Li Qing for six years (1046). Fan Zhongyan lived in the era of internal troubles and foreign invasion in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the internal class contradictions became increasingly prominent, eyeing the foreign Khitan and Xixia. In order to consolidate the political power and improve this situation, the political group headed by Fan Zhongyan began to carry out reforms, which was later called the "Qingli New Deal".
However, the reform violated the interests of the feudal big landlord class conservatives and was strongly opposed by them. The emperor's determination to reform was not firm. Under the oppression of the conservative bureaucratic group headed by Queen Ether, the reform ended in failure. After the failure of the "Qingli New Deal", Fan Zhongyan offended the Prime Minister Lv Yijian, and Fan Zhongyan was relegated to Dengzhou, Henan. This article is about Dengzhou, not Yueyang Tower.
According to the custom of Song people, I don't have to write articles and essays like "Ji" in that place. I mainly use this kind of articles to record things, write about scenery, remember people, and express my feelings or opinions through scenery. In ancient times, people were usually invited to take notes with samples of things they recorded, that is, pictures or related documents, for the reference of note-takers.
Although Teng was demoted to Yuezhou, during his tenure, he made three achievements projects, hoping to get the understanding of the court. Rebuilding Yueyang Tower is one of them, which was completed in Li Qing for five years (1045). In order to improve the popularity of his performance project, Teng gave Fan Zhongyan a picture of Dongting in Late Autumn, and asked him to write two records, one is Yueyang Tower and the other is Hong Yan Diji.
The content described in The Story of Yueyang Tower can be found in real objects, but not in The Story of Hongyan Land. But in the story of Hong Yan levee, Fan Zhongyan also described the Hong Yan levee in detail, which is no less than Yueyang Tower. Therefore, a few scholars debated whether Fan Zhongyan had been to Yueyang Tower when he wrote The Story of Yueyang Tower.