Fan Zhongyan’s famous aphorisms include: Worry first when the world is worried, then rejoice when the world is happy.

Fan Zhongyan (October 1, 989 - June 19, 1052), courtesy name Xiwen, was a native of Wuxian County, Suzhou. He was an outstanding thinker, politician, and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was known as "Fan Wenzhenggong" in the world. , there is "Collected Works of Fan Wenzhenggong" handed down to the world.

Fan Zhongyan also practiced it personally. Regardless of whether he was "living high in the temple" or "far away from the rivers and lakes", he set up schools and taught a wide range of people. In his later years, he also established righteous fields and built righteous schools. Free education was implemented for the children of the clan, and the "beauty of reading" was encouraged. Fan's free education achieved great success in educating the clan, stabilizing the society, and optimizing the customs, and started a new trend of free education in the basic education stage in ancient China.