Fan Zhongyan lost his father when he was two years old. Mother is poor and has no one to rely on. She remarried to Zhujiajian Island's home in Changshan. (Fan Zhongyan) When he grew up, he knew his life experience, said goodbye to his mother with tears, and left his hometown to study at Du Nan Academy in Yingtianfu. He studies hard during the day and studies late at night. In five years, I never took off my clothes and went to bed. Sometimes I feel sleepy at night and often pour water on my face. (Fan Zhongyan) I often study hard during the day and eat nothing until the sun sets. In this way, he understood the gist of the Six Classics, and later made an ambition to benefit the world. He often tells himself, "Worry about the world first, and enjoy it later."
Original text:
Fan Zhongyan was two years old and lonely, and his mother was poor and helpless, which was suitable for Changshan Zhu. As he is a dragon, he knows his family, feels sad, resigns from his mother, and goes to Du Nan to enter the school. Study hard day and night and sleep without taking off your clothes for five years. Or the night is dull and lazy, and you need to cover your face with water. Often porridge is not full, and it begins to be eaten at the end of the day. So I am interested in the world because of the purpose of the Six Classics of Great Harmony. I often say to myself: worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world.
2. Chen Fan is willing to sweep the world.
When Fan Chen was fifteen years old, he once lived alone in a place where the yard and house were in a mess. Qin Xue, his father's friend in the same city, came to visit him and said to him, "Young man, why don't you clean the room to welcome the guests?" Chen Fan said: "A gentleman takes it as his duty to sweep away the evils in the world. You can't care about a room. " Qin Xue thinks that he has the ambition to clarify the world and is different from others.
Original text:
In the fifteenth year of Francisco, I tasted a room in my spare time, when Yu Ting was five years old. Father and friend Qin Xue came from the same county to wait for him and said, "Why don't you clean up for the guests?" Fan said: "The way of a gentleman is to clean the world and settle down." It is strange to know that he has clear world ambitions.
Ban Chao joined the army.
Ban Chao is ambitious and doesn't care about trifles. But filial piety and diligence at home often lead a hard life, and labor is not shameful. He is eloquent and has read a lot of historical classics. In 62 AD (the fifth year of Yongping), my brother Ban Gu was recruited as a school bookboy, and Ban Chao and his mother also took their classmates to Luoyang. Because his family was poor, Ban Chaochang copied books for the government to earn money to support his family. He copied for a long time and worked hard. On one occasion, he stopped his work, threw a pen and sighed: "If a gentleman has no better ambition, he should make great achievements in a foreign land like Fu Jiezi in Zhao Di's time and Zhang Qian in Liang Wudi's time, so as to get a seal. How can he be busy between pens and inkstones for a long time? " People around him laughed at him. Ban Chao said: "How can a teenager understand the ambition of a strong man!"
Original text:
Ban Chao was born in Ping Ling, and Xu Lingbiao is the youngest son. Be ambitious and don't rest on your laurels. However, I am very filial, always on duty at home, and I am not ashamed of my work. Have a mouth to argue, but dabble in book biography. Yongping five years. My brother Gu was called the school book lang, and Chao went to Luoyang with his mother. Poor family, often as a civil servant to support. After studying hard for a long time, he dropped out of school and sighed, "A gentleman has no ambition. He should still win the championship in Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian in foreign countries. Can he stay in the fence for a long time? " Laugh at it in two ways. Chao said, "I know the ambition of a strong man!"