It means putting the interests of the country and the nation in the first place, worrying about the future and destiny of the motherland, contributing to the happiness of the people under the sun, and showing the author's great political ambition.
"Worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later" means to transcend personal worries, take the world as its own responsibility, take the benefit of the people as its purpose, remedy the disadvantages of the times and make 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, she directly wrote to Zhang Xian to go back to the government and abdicate ── Zhang Xian was the one who listened to politics, was in power, and was "the one who didn't dare 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".
original text
In the spring of the fourth year, Li Qing stayed in Baling County. In the second year, the government was harmonious and everything went smoothly. Is to rebuild Yueyang Tower, add its old system, and engrave Tang Xian's poems on it. It belongs to the composition to remember.
Guanfu Baling wins in Dongting Lake. Take a distant mountain, swallow the Yangtze River, and make a vast soup, boundless; It's sunny in the morning and cloudy at night. This is the grand view of Yueyang Tower. Everything the elder said is ready. But the northern martial arts, the Antarctic Xiaoxiang and the poets who moved abroad will all be here, and they will look at things very well.
If it rains, the moon will not open, the evil wind will howl, and the turbid waves will be empty; The sun, moon and stars are hidden, and the mountains are hidden; Business travel is bad and ruined; Twilight is boundless, tigers roar and apes crow. When you go to the temple building, you are homesick, sad, sad and sad.
If it is spring, it is calm and the sky is high and the clouds are light; Sha Ou Ji Xiang, swimming in the brocade scale; The coast is blue and green. Or the long smoke is exhausted, the bright moon is thousands of miles away, the light is shining, the static shadow is sinking, and the fishing songs are answered. How happy I am! When you arrive at Dunsi Building, you will feel relaxed and happy, forget the humiliation, and leave the wine in the wind, which will make you feel happy.
Hey, honey! Is it to taste the heart of the ancient benevolent, or to do something different? Don't rejoice in things, don't grieve for yourself. If you live high in a temple, you will worry about your people; If you stay away from the Jianghu, you will worry about your husband. It's worrying about going in and going out. But when will you be happy? It must be said that "worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world." Hey! Wes, who are we going home with?
September 15th, six years.