Original: Jifu! Try to seek the heart of ancient benevolent people, or do something different from them. What? Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself; If you live high in a temple, you will worry about your people; If you stay away from the Jianghu, you will worry about your husband. It's worrying about going in and going out. But when will you be happy? It must be said, "worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world." Hey! Wes, who are we going home with?
Translation: alas! I have explored the thoughts and feelings of ancient virtuous people. It may be different from the above two moods. What is the reason? It is because in ancient times, people with high moral character would not be unhappy because of the quality of foreign objects and their own gains and losses.
Be an official in the court and worry about the people; I'm not an official in the imperial court, but I'm in a remote Jianghu, worrying about you. In this way, they are also worried about entering the DPRK as an official and retiring from the rivers and lakes.
Even so, when will they be happy? So we must say "be sad before the world is sad, and be happy after the world is happy"? Alas! Without this person, who would I go with?
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Creation background
After the failure of Qingli New Deal, Fan Zhongyan was demoted to Dengzhou. My old friend Teng wrote to him from Hunan, asking him to write down the rebuilt Yueyang Tower and attach a picture of Dongting in late autumn. Fan Zhongyan agreed, but Fan Zhongyan has never actually been to Yueyang Tower. In June of six years (i.e.1June of 046), Li Qing wrote the famous Yueyang Tower, all of which were written by looking at pictures.
The reform violated the interests of the feudal big landlord class conservatives and was strongly opposed by them. Fan Zhongyan was relegated to Dengzhou, Henan Province. This article is about Dengzhou, not Yueyang Tower.
The grand view of Yueyang Tower has been said by predecessors, and it is meaningless to repeat those old sayings. Fan Zhongyan changed a new angle, found a new topic and told his own story.
The title of the article is "The Story of Yueyang Tower", but it cleverly avoids writing about the building, but writes about Dongting Lake, and writes about the different feelings of the relocated poets who boarded the building when they saw the different scenery of Dongting Lake, so as to set off the so-called "heart of the ancients" in the last paragraph. Fan Zhongyan's ingenuity is admirable.
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