1. In the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu reign of Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty (1015), Fan Zhongyan won the Jinshi Scholarship, was received by Zhenzong Zhao Heng, and even attended the banquet given by the emperor.

In the following decades, Fan Zhongyan made remarkable achievements, such as appeasing the locust plague in the Jianghuai River and building the "Fangong Dike".

But because he likes to "find faults" with senior officials, his career is like riding an elevator, with ups and downs.

When Queen Mother Zhang Xian Liu E was in power, he suddenly accused Renzong Zhao Zhen of not leading hundreds of officials to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday.

After a while, he asked the Queen Mother to return to power and was demoted to Suzhou. After Zhao Zhen came to take charge, he was originally used in important positions, but he wrote letters one after another to discuss state affairs, ridiculed the current ills, and demanded reforms. As a result, he offended Prime Minister Lu Yijian and was demoted to Raozhou again.

2. When Fan Zhongyan was an official in the court, he would rather bend than bend, fight against evil forces, and was demoted several times.

When he was demoted to Raozhou, he suffered from lung disease.

Soon, his wife Li also died of illness in Raozhou.

A friend who was an official nearby sent him a piece of "Lingwu Fu", saying that people in the court regarded his several blunt words as an ominous cry.

Advise him to keep his mouth shut in the future and just be a soaring bird.

Fan Zhongyan immediately responded with a poem called "Lingwu Fu" and said, no matter how much people hate the dumb sound of crows, I would rather die than live in silence.

3. Someone once heard Fan Zhongyan praying in a spiritual temple: "Can I be prime minister in the future?" God said no.

He also asked: "I can't be a prime minister, how about being a good doctor?" Whether he is a prime minister or a good doctor, although the nature of the work is different, the benefit to the people is the same.

Fan Zhongyan's idea of ??being a good doctor instead of a prime minister was indeed the essence of the intellectual thought of that era.

"Resolutely running away" means that when Fan Zhongyan learned about his life experience at the age of twenty, he resolutely ran away from home and went to "Yingtianfu Academy" in the south to study.

4. When Fan Zhongyan was studying in Nanjing Imperial College, Emperor Zhenzong passed by Yingtian Mansion, and people rushed to visit Emperor Zhenlong, including the teachers and students in the academy.

Fan Zhongyan was the only one who still sat still, focusing only on reading his sages' books.

A classmate who was close to him said to him, "Go and see the emperor. What a rare opportunity it is to meet the emperor."

But Fan Zhongyan just said casually, "It's not too late to see you again in the future," and continued reading without even raising his head.

The next year, he was indeed a Jinshi in high school. When he took part in the palace examination, he had the opportunity to meet the emperor.

Not only that, but later he also participated in the royal banquet hosted by the emperor.

5. When Fan Zhongyan was demoted to Zhejiang as an official, a minor official, Sun Juzhong, died in office. His family was poor and he lacked travel expenses, so he could not return to his hometown.

Fan Zhongyan gave him hundreds of coins and hired a boat to send the coffin and the family back to his hometown.

He sent an old government official to escort him.

In order to avoid being blocked by checkpoints on the way, I handed him a poem and told him, "If you pass the checkpoint, just take this out." The poem goes: "Ten people carrying each other across the giant river, it was warm when it came and it was miserable when it went away.

If Guanjin wants to have a famous surname, this is the ship of orphans and widows. "Extended information Character evaluation: Fan Zhongyan is "both civil and military" and "excellent in resourcefulness". Whether he is in charge of the government or serving as a commander to guard the border, he is closely related to the safety of the country and the great hope of the times.

In one body.

His improvements to certain military systems and strategic measures stabilized the western frontier defense for a long period of time.

Although the Qingli Reform Movement he led only lasted for one year, it pioneered the reform trend in the Northern Song Dynasty and became the prelude to Wang Anshi's "Xining Reform"; even when he was a local official, he worked hard and dedicated himself.

Fan Zhongyan was not only a famous politician and military strategist in the Northern Song Dynasty, but also an outstanding litterateur and educator.

As the founder of Song Dynasty studies and a leader of scholars, he pioneered the trend and wrote articles and discussions based on Confucian benevolence and righteousness.

He taught by words and deeds with his charming personality, devoted his life to preaching and teaching, and carefully cultivated and recommended talents; even in his later years, "the countryside was not established" and he had no fixed place to live. His deathbed "posthumous note" did not mention any personal matters.

The idea of ??"worry first and rejoice later" and the moral integrity of people with lofty ideals he advocated set a new benchmark for the enterprising spirit in Confucianism and are a shining spiritual wealth in the history of Chinese civilization.