Anyone who has read Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower" will probably never forget these two famous sayings: "Worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world." Although the paragraph that begins to describe the scenery of Yueyang Tower in The Story of Yueyang Tower is also beautiful and even fascinating, it seems that only when you read and write a few sentences will readers really feel excited and feel a great shock. It's like watching a talented painter paint people. The scenery of Dongting Lake described above is just the beautiful face, strong figure and proper clothes of the people in the painting. Only when the words "worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later" really stand out, can the people in the painting be fully alive. So these two sentences are actually indispensable souls in Yueyang Tower!

Why are these two famous sayings so attractive? The key point is that these fourteen words are very vivid, which shows that the outstanding sons and daughters of the Chinese nation have always put the interests of the country and the nation first, ignoring private interests. Therefore, this is just like Huo Qubing's famous saying in Han Dynasty that "Huns are still alive, why stay at home", and Gu's famous patriotic thinker in Qing Dynasty's saying that "every man has a responsibility for the rise and fall of the world", etc., which can always arouse China patriots from generation to generation and become the driving force for encouraging others to make progress.

Of course, there is probably another reason why these two sentences can last forever. This is: it is not a general empty rhetoric, but a true embodiment of Fan Zhongyan's personality all his life. According to relevant historical records, Fan Zhongyan was born in Wuxian County, Suzhou, and his family was very poor when he was a teenager, but he often used these two sentences as his motto to motivate himself to study hard. Later, when I grew up, I became an official, even a senior official like the vice premier, and I never forgot the people of the world. He set up a volunteer field and a volunteer school in his hometown, and tried his best to make the local poor have food and books to read within his power. He also tried his best to reform the unreasonable political system at that time, even offended the emperor and powerful people, was demoted as an official, and did not change his ambition. No matter how big or small he is as an official, whether he is proud or not, when he is in office, he can leave some people who will miss the achievements of generations. When he was guarding Yan 'an Mansion, a frontier fortress town, even Xixia, a minority who was fighting the Song Dynasty at that time, had to express great admiration for him, calling him "Fan Xiao Lao Zi, with millions of soldiers in his chest".

Therefore, when people read this sentence, "Worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later", they often think of the author's glorious life with noble character and consistent words and deeds, and feel more cordial and respectful.