Fan Zhongyan lost his father in his childhood and lived in poverty, but he studied hard and had little ambition. According to "History of Song Dynasty", he made an oath that "it is not his husband's lifelong ambition to disadvantage others" from an early age. The epitaph written by Ouyang Xiu also said: "There are few big festivals in the public, and the poor and rich are ruined. They don't move their hearts, but they are interested in the world. I often say to myself,' a scholar worries about the world first, and then enjoys the world.' "It can be seen that the sentence" Worry about the world first, and be happy after the world "is Fan Zhongyan's heartfelt words since childhood, and it is widely known through the article" Yueyang Tower ". The source of the thought of "taking care of the world first and enjoying it" is the benevolence thought of Confucianism. Mencius once said: "People are happy when they are happy; People have their worries, and people have their worries. Happiness is in the world, worry is in the world, not the king, nothing. " (Mencius, Hui Liang, Wang Xia) Fan Zhongyan further developed the idea of "worrying about the world first" into "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later", that is, transcending personal worries, taking the world as his own responsibility, taking the benefit of the people as the purpose, remedying deficiencies and making positive progress. For this reason, we must not be moved by external things, neither the light and shade of nature nor the hardships of social environment can shake our faith. Fan Zhongyan has been practicing this belief in his political career. For example, in the seventh year of Tiansheng (1029), 30-year-old Fan Zhongyan was still in charge of a small secretary cabinet school that was not qualified to remonstrate, and wrote a letter to prevent Emperor Song Renzong from leading hundreds of officials to make incense to the Queen Mother for birthday; In the second year, I directly wrote to ask Queen Zhang Xian to go back to the office and abdicate. At that time, Queen Zhang Xian was listening to politics, and the ruling and opposition parties were full of civil and military officials. "No one dared to speak" Fan Zhongyan was demoted to Beijing and didn't come back until three years later. For another example, in the third year of Jing (1036), Fan Zhongyan went to the "Hundred Officials Map" and accused the Prime Minister of cronyism and appointment of officials, but he was falsely accused of "exceeding his authority, recommending cronies and alienating the monarch and his subjects" and was reprimanded. Even Ouyang Xiu and others who were unfair to him were demoted. Fan Zhongyan's official career has been ups and downs for decades, and he has been demoted several times, but he has never changed to be an official, worrying about the country and the people. He used his salary to buy a thousand acres of "beneficial fields" in his hometown to help the poor, but he was poor all his life, so that when he died, he "had nothing to worry about, and his son had nothing to worry about." Pleading for the people and worrying about the country and the people are the concrete embodiment of Fan Zhongyan's spirit of "worrying about the world first and worrying about the world later".