Put the interests of the country and the nation first and the future of the motherland first. Sweat for the happiness of people all over the world.

From Fan Zhongyan's Yueyang Tower in Song Dynasty.

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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.

Plus its old system, Tang Xian's modern poems are engraved on it. It belongs to the composition to remember. Yu Baling wins.

In Dongting Lake. Take the distant mountains, swallow the Yangtze River and make huge 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. However, the northern martial arts, the Antarctic Xiaoxiang, a poet who touched the guests.

I will come here more often, and I will see the feelings of things without exception. If the husband is raining cats and dogs.

Even the moon doesn't open, the evil wind whistling, and the turbid waves are empty; The sun and stars are hidden.

Mountain dive form; Business travel is bad and ruined; Dusk and darkness.

Tigers roar and apes crow. If you go to the temple building, you will go to the countryside to feel homesick, worry and sneer.

Those who are desolate everywhere and feel extremely sad. If it is spring, it will be calm.

Up and down the sky, a blue sky; Li Jing swims in Ji Xiang, Sha Ou.

The coast is blue and green. Still gone, the moon is thousands of miles away.

How happy it is to float on the light, jump on the gold, sink in the shadow, and sing to each other's songs!

Going to Dengsi Building is refreshing, forgetting humiliation and leaving wine in the wind.

It is happy. Hey, honey! Try to seek the heart of ancient benevolent people, or do something different from them.

What? Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with 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.

Translation:

In the spring of Li Qing's fourth year, Teng was demoted to Baling County Order. In the second year, political affairs progressed smoothly, and folk music and various bankrupt enterprises were established. So I rebuilt Yueyang Tower, expanded the original scale, and portrayed the famous Tang people and contemporary people. Let me write an article to describe it.

I saw the beautiful scenery of Baling County on Dongting Lake. It connects the distant mountains, and the water flowing through the Yangtze River is boundless. The weather changes day by day, and the weather is constantly changing. This is a magnificent sight of Yueyang Tower.

The descriptions of the predecessors are very detailed. Even so, most bureaucrats and relegated poets from Wuxia in the north to Lishui and Xiangshui in the south gather here, and the feelings aroused by watching the natural scenery may be different, right?

Just like rainy days, the weather is uncertain for several months, the wind roars and the turbid waves go straight into the sky; The sun, moon and stars are hidden, and the mountains are hidden; Merchant ships and passengers can't pass, and when the ship tilts, the oars are broken; In the evening, it was dark, and the tiger trembled and showed compassion for others. ?

When you climb this building, you will have a hometown that has left the country and disappeared. You are worried about others speaking ill and afraid of criticism. Your eyes are full of depression and your mood is extremely sad.

When the sun is shining, the lake is calm, without wind or waves, and the sky is connected with the lake, which is green; Seagulls on the sandbar sometimes fly and sometimes stop, beautiful fish swim around, herbs on the shore and orchids on the small continent are lush.

Sometimes the smoke is all dispersed, the bright moon blows thousands of miles, the waves flash gold, and the still moon sinks into the water, and the fishermen sing to you. This kind of fun is really endless.

What! When you climb the building, you will feel open-minded Happiness, glory, humiliation, forgetting, holding a glass of wine and blowing a breeze, I am really happy.

Ah! I have been looking for the thoughts and feelings of ancient nobles, which may be different from those of two people. What is this? Your own gains and losses are not happy or sad because of the quality of foreign countries. When he was an official in the imperial court, he was concerned with the people; When he is not a quack, he is worried about the monarch.

In this way, I am worried that I am an official of the imperial court. I'm also worried about remote rivers and lakes. In this case, when will they feel happy? They will definitely say, "There is no worry in the world, worry first and then be happy." Alas! Without such a person, who am I with?

Written on September 5, 2006/kloc-0.

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works appreciation

This article shows that although the author is in rivers and lakes, worried about the country and the people and persecuted, he still does not give up his indomitable will. At the same time, it is also an encouragement and comfort to his demoted comrades.

Yueyang Tower is famous for its lofty ideological realm. Ouyang Xiu, another contemporary writer, said in an inscription written for him that he was interested in the world since he was a child, and he often recited to himself: "A scholar should worry about the world first, and enjoy the world afterwards." It can be seen that Fan Zhongyan's life code of conduct is "worrying about the world first, and enjoying the world later" mentioned at the end of Yueyang Tower.

Mencius said, "Being rich is good for the world, and being poor is good for the world." This has become the creed of many literati in feudal times.

When Fan Zhongyan wrote this article, he was demoted to an official and "stayed away from the rivers and lakes". He could have taken an independent attitude and lived a leisurely and happy life. However, he put forward the principle that an upright scholar-bureaucrat should stand firm and do his own thing well, and thought that the promotion of personal honor and disgrace could not be ignored. It is hard to encourage yourself and your friends to "not be happy with things, not sad with yourself" and "worry about the world first, and be happy with the world later".

The spirit embodied in these two sentences, the quality of suffering first and pleasure second, is undoubtedly instructive.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Yueyang tower