Scholar in the World: Fan Zhongyan

Scholar in the world: Fan Zhongyan Introduction He was an orphan from a poor family who had no intention of painting porridge, a humble minister who had been demoted three times and was honored three times. He was an iron-blooded Confucian general who defended the enemy in the western border. He was also an eternal gentleman who wrote "Be anxious when the world is worried first, and be happy when the world is happy later". In the fifth year of Tiansheng's reign, Fan Zhongyan passed the imperial examination and embarked on a road full of thorns to help the world. From the desk of the Guangde County Government Office to the court hall of the Kaifeng Palace, from the fortress of the Western Xia border to the academy of Huazhou in Dengzhou, he experienced the ups and downs of the officialdom and was demoted three times but never changed his original intention. Faced with the difficulties of the Queen Mother's autocratic power, the domineering power, Xixia's border invasion, and the failure of the New Deal, he always adhered to the character of "dying peacefully and living silently" and adhered to the oath of "asking for life for the people". He dredged floods in Suzhou and created the method of "confining water to attack sand"; he built the city of Yanzhou, which made the Xixia army lament that "Xiao Fan Laozi has tens of thousands of soldiers in his belly"; he implemented the Qingli New Deal, although it failed, but it instilled in the Song Dynasty. The pulse of innovation; in his later years, he established Fan's Yi Zhuang and used his life savings to protect his relatives, fellow villagers and neighbors; he wrote "The Story of Yueyang Tower" on his sick bed, using a deafening motto to illuminate the spiritual sky of scholars for thousands of years. This is an epic about ideals and perseverance. It records how a poor scholar relied on his faith and responsibility to embark on a pilgrimage that "takes the world as his own responsibility" in the turbulent Northern Song Dynasty court and the people's livelihood. It eventually became a spiritual monument that spans thousands of years and will never fade.