Qu Yuan lived in the period of fierce struggle in the middle and late Warring States, so his thoughts, like Zhuangzi, were deeply branded with the times. First of all, Qu Yuan lived in Chu Huaiwang and the Period, which coincided with the rise and fall of Chu. There are many domestic contradictions, and foreign problems are acute and complicated, while the general trend of the international situation is to gradually move from the situation of great power disputes to reunification. This special environment must be answered by a thinker with far-reaching vision and great political ambition. Secondly, the situation of "a hundred schools of thought contend" gradually formed during the Warring States period, after a long process of mutual argument and mutual absorption, gradually showed a trend of integration and summary in cultural thoughts, so Qu Yuan's thoughts were also colorful and reflected to varying degrees, showing his eclectic and broad mind.
Li Bai has passion and talent, but he can't display it. Heroes are useless. Li Bai struggled for his ideals all his life, but he lost miserably every time. He aims to help the poor, but Xuanzong needs to sing praises and moisten things quietly; He devoted himself to investigating chaos and killing enemies, while Su Zong devoted himself to cutting off dissidents. In his poems, he angrily protested against the destruction and strangulation of talents by feudal society. Li Bai is upright and upright, willing to cater to the needs of the people, and disdains indulging in worldly affairs, despising mediocrity and power.
Fan Zhongyan experienced a lot of sadness and misfortune in his childhood. He lost his father when he was a child and had to go to a foreign land with his remarried mother. Not only suffered hardships and bitterness in life, but also suffered depression and humiliation in spirit. It is this humiliating and unfortunate life experience that made Fan Zhongyan deeply feel the darkness and corruption of society and the suffering and injustice of the bottom people from an early age. Once educated and edified by Confucian culture, the worrying thoughts of "taking the world as one's own responsibility" and "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later" took root in his young mind. Fan Zhongyan's public welfare consciousness and social responsibility sprouted earlier. In his early years, he prayed to the gods and hoped to engage in two careers: one was to be a prime minister, and the other was to be a good doctor. He explained: "having money to have children is not a man's ambition!" " ""I don't think ordinary people in the world will be bullied if they push themselves into the ditch. Can see the big from the small and give birth to the reality of the people. If you can't get it, your husband can save people and things, and you can't be a good doctor. " ("Notes on Being able to change my diet" (volume 13)) Fan Zhongyan has been in contact with social hooligans since childhood and has formed great sympathy for the poor. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan, who grew up gradually, did not want to associate with the Zhu brothers of his stepfather's family, but regarded the children of poor families around him as bosom friends, which made him more exposed to the working people living at the bottom of society. At that time, Changshan County, located in the Yellow River Delta, often suffered from floods. In the event of floods, droughts and locust plagues, the people who are not rich are even more precarious and their lives are unsustainable. These horrible social scenes are undoubtedly a living and profound education for a young man who is not yet mature and has not yet embarked on the society. Living in this social environment, Fan Zhongyan has developed the habit of "unsmiling and thinking" since he was a child, and has deep reflection and thinking about everything around him, especially the ever-changing and turbulent social reality. When he was an official and faced these tragic realities directly, he had to try his best to find a solution. Zou Ping's soil and water nurtured him, and the culture here influenced him. Therefore, it can be said that the Yellow River Delta is the most primitive soil formed by Fan Zhongyan's thought of "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later". On the other hand, Fan Zhongyan's optimism also had a far-reaching impact on the latecomers living in this land.
Du Fu: The poet has experienced ups and downs and hardships, and has written many poems reflecting the reality of worrying about the country and the people, which is called "the history of poetry"; He is a great realistic poet who combines the artistic achievements of poetry and connects the past with the future.
Du Fu was born in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He not only has the passion, grandeur and sense of responsibility of the times of the literati in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but also is more and deeper influenced by Confucianism than the literati in the same period. Du Fu's political ambition is to "serve the monarch Yao and Shun, and then make the customs pure", that is, to assist the monarch and help the world, so that the rule of Qingming in the Yao and Shun era can reappear in today's world. But the rough life and turbulent times made him fall into the lower class for a long time, so he gradually went to the folk and became a great poet who shouted for the Lebanese people. Du Fu's patriotism and loyalty to the monarch are linked. The ancient monarch was the symbol of the country, so it was difficult to separate the monarch from the country. In his early years, Du Fu described his loyalty to Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty as "sunflower lotus leaves lean against the sun, and its physical properties are hard to take away", just as sunflower bean leaves are sunny in nature and cannot be changed. He is willing to use his hard work as a fountain to support the auspicious spirit of the country, rejuvenating the country and saving the people, and the poet does not hesitate to sacrifice his life. Although Du Fu was down and out all his life, he always cared about real politics and thought about the big issues about the fate of the country. Until the last moment of his life, he never forgot the reality that "the blood of war is still there, and the voice of the army has moved to this day." This shows Du Fu's strong sense of mission to the country and people.