Fan Zhongyan's prose works are mainly political comments and letters. Through these works, he expressed his concern about current politics and deep thinking about society. He emphasized the role of articles in political education and believed that articles were closely related to politics, social customs and the rise and fall of the country. Fan Zhongyan's political dredging and logical correspondence are very convincing, among which Shang Zheng Shi Shu is known as "the world knows".
Although the number of Fan Zhongyan's poems is small, they are rich and colorful. He advocates that poets should hold the road "in one breath", feel everything and express it through poetry. He pays attention to the relationship between poetry and current affairs, and believes that poetry creation should be loyal to the reality of life, conform to current affairs, and cannot be empty talk. Fan Zhongyan's poems have a wide range of contents, such as expressing his feelings, paying attention to people's livelihood, praising the landscape of the motherland, praising things and rejoicing.
Brief introduction of Fan Zhongyan
Fan Zhongyan lost his father when he was a child. Because his mother, Mrs Xie, remarried Changshan Zhu, she changed her name to Zhu Shuo. In the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (10 15), Fan Zhongyan studied hard and awarded the commander-in-chief of Guangde Army to join the army. Later, he successively served as Xinghua County Magistrate, Head of Secret Pavilion School, Tongguan in Chen Zhou, Known in Suzhou and Kaifeng in Quan Zhi. And repeatedly reprimanded for being impartial and outspoken. After the Song and Xia Wars broke out, in the first year of Kangding (1040), they served as Shaanxi deputy envoys with Han Qi * * * to appease the surrender and adopt the policy of "long-term reclamation" to consolidate the northwest frontier defense. It promoted the negotiations between Song and Xia.
After the northwest affair was settled, Song Renzong recalled Fan Zhongyan to North Korea and awarded him a council agreement. Later, he entered the Senate to study politics, "answered Chen's ten things", initiated the "Qingli New Deal" and carried out reforms. Shortly after the New Deal was frustrated, Fan Zhongyan invited himself out of Beijing to learn about Taizhou, Dengzhou, Hangzhou and Qingzhou. In the fourth year of Emperor Yangdi's reign (1052), he was renamed Yingzhou, and died on the way to help the disease, at the age of 64. Song Renzong personally wrote a book with the inscription "Ode to a Monument to a Saint".
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Fan Zhongyan.