There is a famous saying in Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower": "Worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world." It has become a famous saying through the ages. In fact, there are still eight words worth learning in Yueyang Tower: "Don't be happy with things, don't be sad for yourself." Specifically, these eight words are also in line with each of us.
Fan Zhongyan's native place used to say that Fan Zhongyan was born in Xuzhou and Suzhou, that he was born in Suzhou because his hometown was Suzhou, and that he was born in Xuzhou because his father died in Xuzhou. These are all inferences without historical basis.
Fan Zhongyan was born in Zhengding House, and now he is gradually recognized by all walks of life for three reasons:
1. Fan Zhongyan's self-report: Fan Zhongyan wrote in the epitaph of Fan Fujun (Wen Zhong) written for his brother Fan Zhongwen: "The entrance examination was taboo, belonging to the imperial dynasty, and Li Zhen was the government, and Wu Xinjun was the minister." "Shen Mou" refers to his father, that is, Fan Yong, the official secretary of the Calm House at that time. It is confirmed that Fan Zhongyan's father is an official of the Calm House.
He and his friends Han Qi and Han Qi are officials of Zhengding House. As soon as he arrived at Zhengding House, Fan Zhongyan wrote him a letter. They were very good friends, and later they were all promoted to the central government, and later they were envied, excluded and demoted. The letter said, "Fan was born there. Since the appraisal, it has not arrived. I'm sure it will win more awards. " Zhengding is a good place, where I was born, and I have never been back since I left. Tell us clearly that he was born in Zhengding.
The second is expert research.
Fan Zhongyan Research Institute was specially established, and many people studied Fan Zhongyan's thoughts.
Mr. Fang Jian, whose ancestral home is Suzhou, came straight to the point in "An Introduction to Fan Zhongyan's Life and Thoughts": "Fan Zhongyan, whose word is Greek, is from Suzhou. Song Taizong Duangong was born in Zhengding Prefecture (Zhengding, Hebei Province) on August 29th in the second year (AD 65438+10/October 1, 989), and his father Fan Yong was our ambassador to Chengde Army, an important town in Beidao. " Many scholars agree.
The third is that Fan Zhongyan's descendants said that his 35th generation descendant, Fan Xiangke, the executive deputy secretary general of the World Fan Clan Association, wrote: "He was the secretary of the German army for more than two years, and his wife Chen died of calmness, and later married Xie, a big family in Gaoping Village, and settled in Gaoping Village." One hundred days after Fan Zhongyan was born in Gaoping Village, Fan Yong was transferred to Xuzhou today.
These three evidences, the place where ancestral home and birth are mentioned in the dictionary now is called native place. Because Fan Zhongyan was born here, it is no exaggeration to say that Fan Zhongyan is a Zhengding person. It is said that Fan Zhongyan is from Gaoping Village, Zhengding County, but there is no record about him in Zhengding history books. I think this has something to do with Fan Zhongyan's short time in Zhengding.
On July 1994 and 17, Wen Wei Po published a short message "Fan Zhongyan's birthplace and date" in the column of "Learning Forest". Zhang Yongqing, deputy director of the lecturer group of Hebei Provincial Party Committee and Zhengding people, discovered it. It can be said that Mr. Zhang Yongqing was the first hero to welcome Fan Zhongyan back to his hometown. He immediately published it in "Theoretical Intelligence" for the reference of leaders only, and the title was changed to "Fan Zhongyan's Birthplace Now Zhengding, Hebei Province" and sent it to cities and counties.
On March 27th, 2007, Zhengding Culture Promotion Association invited Zhang Yongqing, Zhang Mengting and Lv Wang to make a special study on Fan Zhongyan in Zhengding Hong Wen Middle School.
On the spot, it was decided to build Gong Fan Temple in Zhengding County, and Zhengding County Records has listed him as a cultural and historical celebrity in Zhengding County. We are sorting out a batch of poems in Shijiazhuang, all of which say that Fan Zhongyan is a historical and cultural celebrity.
For such a famous person, his life is very bumpy. He was born in Gaoping Village, Quyangqiao Town on August 29th, 989. He was born 65,438+000 days ago, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and went to Xuzhou with his father. On the seventh day of the first month of the second year, my father died in Xuzhou. At that time, he was only 130 days, and later he followed his mother to Suzhou. Because it was with Chen, the family denied Fan Zhongyan's mother and son without evidence. A few months later, Fan Zhongyan followed his mother in Tianpingshan, Suzhou for three years, and he and his mother have been in Tianpingshan. Later, a Shanxi native named Zhu, his mother Zhu remarried and followed Zhu to Hunan.
Fan Zhongyan's 2 1 year-old stepfather Zhu died. Fan Zhongyan was despised by the children born to Zhu's ex-wife and angrily left home to study abroad. At the age of 26, he won the Jinshi. At the age of 29, he came to Suzhou with his mother and asked to change his surname to Fan, but the people still refused to recognize him. With the approval of the emperor, he was given the surname Fan, the name Zhongyan and the word Xi.
Fan Zhongyan worked as an official in more than 20 cities all his life. After being demoted, he traveled everywhere. He was 58 years old when he became an official in Zhengzhou, Henan.
Fan Zhongyan married his wife Li at the age of 29, and his mother died at the age of 47. The Zhu family denied it because Fan Zhongyan was also surnamed Fan, and the Fan family denied it because she remarried to the Zhu family. He died in Xuzhou at the age of 67, and so did his father.
So he is not from Suzhou, because he was neither born in Suzhou nor died in Suzhou.
So we say that Fan Zhongyan is from Quyangqiao Town, Zhengding, and it is an expression of Zhengding people's wishes to welcome Fan Wenzheng back to his hometown.