Fan Zhongyan lost his father when he was young and lived in poverty, but he studied hard and had few ambitions. According to "History of Song Dynasty", he made an oath from an early age that "it's not her husband's lifelong ambition not to benefit others". The epitaph written by Ouyang Xiu also said: "There are few big festivals in the public, and they are ruined by wealth and poverty, and they do not move their hearts, but they are interested in the world. I often say to myself,' A scholar worries about the world first, and enjoys the world later.' " It can be seen that the phrase "Worry about the world first, and be happy about the world later" is Fan Zhongyan's heart since childhood, and it is widely known through the article Yueyang Tower. The origin of the thought of "worry first, then be happy" is the benevolence thought of Confucianism. Mencius once said: "People are happy when they are happy; People worry about their worries, and people worry about their worries. Joy in the world, worry about the world, but not the king, there is nothing. " (Mencius Liang Hui Wang Xia) Fan Zhongyan further developed the idea of "being happy and worrying about the world" into "worrying about the world first, and being happy after the world", that is, to transcend personal worries, take the world as his own responsibility, take the benefit of the people as the purpose, remedy the shortcomings and make positive progress. To this end, we must not be moved by external things, whether it is the light and shade of nature or the smooth and difficult social environment, and we cannot shake our faith. Fan Zhongyan has always practiced this belief in his political career. For example, in the seventh year of Tiansheng (129), 3-year-old Fan Zhongyan was still in charge of a small secretary's cabinet school that was not qualified to remonstrate, so he wrote a letter to remonstrate and stop the emperor Song Renzong from leading hundreds of officials to offer the Queen Mother a pilgrimage to celebrate her birthday. In the second year, I wrote directly to ask Empress Zhang Xian to return to the government and abdicate-at that time, Empress Zhang Xian was listening to politics, ruling in one's hand and ruling in one's hand, full of civil and military affairs, "no one dared to speak." Fan Zhongyan was demoted from Beijing and didn't come back until three years later. Another example is that in the third year of Jing (136), Fan Zhongyan went to Song Renzong to enter the "Hundred Officials Map", accusing the Prime Minister Lv Yijian of cronyism and appointing him. Instead, he was falsely accused of "overstepping his post, recommending cronies and alienating the monarch and his subjects", and he was reprimanded. Even Ouyang Xiu and others who were unfair to him were also demoted. Fan Zhongyan's career has been ups and downs for decades, and he has been demoted several times, but he has never changed his mind about official management and worrying about the country and the people. He used his salary to buy a thousand acres of "Yitian" in his hometown to help the poor people, but he was poor all his life, so that when he died, he "had nothing to think about, and his son had nothing to think about." Plead for the people and worry about the people, which is the concrete embodiment of Fan Zhongyan's spirit of "worrying about the world first and worrying about it later".