Fan Zhongyan's famous saying

"The sage has an impermanent heart and takes the hearts of the people as his heart. I will be good to those who are good, and I will be good to those who are not good. I will be virtuous and good; I will believe in those who believe, and I will believe in those who do not." Also believe in it and be virtuous."

"Be worried about the world's worries first, and be happy after the world's happiness" is Fan Zhongyan's famous saying, which expresses his concern for the country and the people. This sentence means that a person with lofty ideals should worry before the people in the world and enjoy after the people in the world. "Die with peace of mind, live without silence" - Fan Zhongyan's famous saying when he fought for freedom nine hundred years ago

The first incident

When Fan Zhongyan was the local magistrate of Pizhou, he had one day of leisure Nothing happened, so I took my colleagues and subordinates to the high building.

The Fan family courtyard in Xiangshi Village, Yuying Town, Luojiang County, Sichuan Province

A banquet was set up. Before they could raise their glasses to drink, they saw There were a few people wearing sackcloth and mourning who were making burial utensils, but they were not very angry. Instead, they hurriedly sent someone to ask them. It turned out that a scholar who lived in Pizhou died and was going to be buried in the suburbs, but the coffin, tomb and other funeral utensils were not found yet. After hearing this, Fan Zhongyan showed a look of mourning, immediately removed the banquet, and gave the bereaved family a considerable amount of money to complete the funeral. Some of the guests at the banquet were moved to tears.

The second thing

Fan Zhongyan once wrote an epitaph for someone else. When he finished writing and sealing the epitaph and was about to send it away, he suddenly remembered and said, "I have to let Yin Shilu take a look." The next day, he gave the epitaph to Yin Shilu for review. After reading it, Shi Lu said: "Your article has a great influence at present, and future generations will quote your article as a basis, so you must be careful when writing. Now you write the history of transportation as the history of the governor, and write the governor of the state as the prefect and other official names of the Han Dynasty. , is indeed elegant enough, but these official names no longer exist, and future generations will definitely be confused by this. This is what caused the vulgar Confucian scholars to argue endlessly. "Fan Zhongyan pressed his hand on the small table and said: "Fortunately. Please take a look, otherwise, I almost made a mistake." ("Compilation of Anecdotes of Song Dynasty")

The third item

According to Lu You's "Notes of Laoxue'an": "Fan Wenzhenggong liked to play the piano, but he only played "Lu Shuang" on weekdays[5], and people at the time called him Fan Lu Shuang."

The fourth piece

Breaking (jī) strokes Porridge: Fan Zhongyan lived in very poverty when he was a child. His father passed away very early and his mother remarried because she could not bear the pressure of life. Fan Zhongyan had no choice but to go to the temple to study. He cooked porridge with two liters of millet every day. After the porridge solidified overnight, he divided it into four pieces. He ate two pieces each with pickles in the morning and evening, and studied hard to become a talent. Later, it was derived into an idiom: breaking the knot and drawing porridge

The fifth incident

Once, Fan Zhongyan asked his second son Fan Chunren to go to Suzhou to transport wheat to Sichuan. When Fan Chunren came back, he met Shi Manqing, an acquaintance, and learned that he had no money to transport his coffin back home due to the death of a relative, so he stayed here. Fan Chunren gave a boatload of wheat to Shi Manqing to help him return home. When Fan Chunren returned home, he could not tell his father, so he stood beside his father for a long time and did not dare to mention the matter. Fan Zhongyan asked him: "Have you met any friends in Suzhou?" Fan Chunren replied: "When passing by Danyang, I met Shi Manqing. He was trapped there because he had no money to transport the coffin back to his hometown due to the funeral of his family." Fan Zhongyan immediately Said: "Why don't you give him all the wheat on the boat?" Fan Chunren replied: "I have already given it to him." After hearing this, Fan Zhongyan was very happy with his son's actions and praised him for doing the right thing.