Fan Zhongyan, a famous politician, military figure and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, was born in Wu County, Suzhou, but he had a very deep historical relationship with Shandong. He was born in Xuzhou, grew up in Zouping, Shandong, and was old in Qingzhou, Shandong, at the age of 64, and spent more than 20 years in Shandong. He was the son-in-law of the Li family in Cao County, Shandong, and his descendants multiplied in Yucheng in eastern Henan and Shan County and Cao County in southwest lu.
When Fan Zhongyan was two years old, his father Fan Yong died of illness while serving in Xuzhou, and his mother Xie sent the coffin back to Suzhou for burial. Two years later, due to the hardships of life, he remarried Zhu Wenhan, who was then the governor of Wu County. Fan Zhongyan followed his mother to the Zhu family and changed his name to Zhu Said. Zhu Wenhan was a native of Changshan, Zizhou (present-day Zouping, Shandong). After Zhu Wenhan resigned and returned to his hometown, Fan Zhongyan followed his stepfather and mother to Changshan, Zizhou. At the age of seven, his mother Xie taught Fan Zhongyan to read, and at the age of ten he entered a private school, and at the age of 15 he was promoted to a scholar, and was favored by Jiang Zun, the right counselor of the county who returned to his hometown. Jiang Zun praised Fan Zhongyan and said, "Although Zhu Xue is young, Qi Shi is also. He was not only a prominent official, but a great name in the world. ”
At the recommendation of his stepfather's friend, Fan Zhong drowned in Zouping Changbai Mountain Liquan Temple to study. Surrounded by mountains and elegant surroundings, Liquan Temple is an ideal place to study with peace of mind. The abbot of the temple, Master Huitong, was deeply knowledgeable and loved Fan Zhongyan, teaching him the "I Ching", "Zuo Zhuan", "Warring States Policy", "History" and poetry and song, and also helped him everywhere in his life. In order to avoid the hustle and bustle of the temple, Fan Zhongyan found a secluded cave in the south of the temple to study, cooked a pot of porridge with millet sent from home, and when it cooled and solidified, he divided a cross into four pieces, and ate one or two pieces of food to fill his hunger, leaving an allusion to "cutting porridge and breaking the mouth".
According to local legend, once when Fan Zhong was reading in the cave, he accidentally found a rat hole under the thorn tree outside the cave that was shining, and when he dug it open, it was two cellars of silver and gold. He did not move, buried it as before, and returned to the cave to pick up the lamp and read at night. 30 years later, Liquan Temple suffered a fire, and Master Huitong sent someone to find Fan Zhongyan, who had gone to Yanzhou Shubian, to ask for help. Fan Zhong's flooded repair letter for the visitor to bring back. Master Huitong unfolded the letter, which turned out to be a five-word poem: "A pool of gold in Jingdong, a pool of silver in Jingxi." Half of the monastery, half of the monks. Later, the temple was repaired with gold and silver excavated, and Liquan Temple was revived. This is the story of Zouping's women and children who are known as "cellar gold donation monks".
When Fan Zhongyan was 23 years old, he accidentally learned of his origins, so he bid farewell to his mother, left the Zhu family, and went to study at Yingtian Academy in Nandu (present-day Shangqiu, Henan) during the Song Dynasty. Yingtian Academy was one of the four famous academies of the Song Dynasty, where Fan Zhongyan studied hard for five years, and in the eighth year of DazhongXiangfu (1015), he passed the jinshi examination and petitioned the imperial court for permission to recognize his ancestors and return to the sect. In the first year of the Tianxi Dynasty (1017), Jinshi Zhu said that after being approved by the imperial court, he was officially renamed Fan Zhongyan (范仲淹), the character Xiwen.
The people of Zouping remembered the noble virtues of Fan Zhongyan and built the Fan Gong Ancestral Hall in the second year of Song Zhiping (1065) in the south of Zouping Changshan City. Fan Gong Ancestral Hall sits north and faces south, divided into two courtyards, the front yard is the main hall, the back yard is the enjoyment hall, and the hall is plastic with the statue of Fan Gong. There are two monuments on the left and right of fan gongci, the left book "First Worry", the right book "Hou Le", and the yang lian on both sides of the door is: "The prime minister went out of the mountain, drew porridge and buried gold, twenty years of long white shelter, looking at the right xiangxian, still the Suzhou genealogy; Xiu Cai ren tianxia, first worry and then happy, three hundred years of Han Qing's achievements, ask Jinan celebrities, who follows the east wind of the river." "A comprehensive summary and evaluation of Fan Zhongyan's life experience and achievements were made.
Fan Zhongyan also did not forget the nurturing grace of Zou Ping's father and elder, and Chu Shi Guangde joined the army, that is, his mother and the Zhu family's half-brother were taken to live with Ying Tianfu and adopt his mother. In the third year of the Emperor's reign (1051), when he was 63 years old, he was transferred to Qingzhou Zhizhou, passing through Zouping, where he was a fellow villager of Zouping's father. Fan Zhongyan also placed Yitian in Zouping. According to research, the yitian act in China's history began with Fan Zhongyan. Qian Gongfu's "Yitian Ji" says: "Fan Wenzheng Gong ... Place a thousand acres of land in Guo Changnei. The number is known as Yi Tian, to support the people of the group, to have food every day, to have clothes for the years, and to marry and bury people. Choose the elders of the clan and the wise men to take charge of their plans, and the time to cashiers... Those who are in office should not give it. "The purpose of his righteous field is to help the poor and alleviate the dangers, and to run a school and educate people." Fan Zhongyan set up two yitian in total, one in Wu County, Suzhou, expressing a deep affection for the villagers in his homeland; the second in Zouping, Shandong, to repay the nurturing grace of the Zhu clan and the fathers and elders of the Zouping Zhu clan.
In the second year of Tiansheng (1024), Fan Zhongyan moved to Dali Temple to marry the daughter of Li Changyan, the crown prince. In the Song Dynasty, the Li Changling and Li Changyan families lived in Chuqiu, Song Prefecture (present-day southern Cao County, Shandong), and were a typical famous and prestigious family, after Li Jifu, a famous minister of the Tang Dynasty. There were eight jinshi in the Li family, and Li Changling was an official to a suffragette governor (deputy prime minister). Compared with men, the women of the Lee family are more legendary. Wu Zeng's "Records of the Transformation of the Immortals and Ghosts" volume 18 "Immortals and Ghosts" of the "Li Clan Gate Daughter Duogui" Yun: "Li Shengzheng Changling's family has many noble sons-in-law, participating in the government Fan Gongzhongyun, and the deputy Zheng Gongjian, all of whom are selected from the small official cloth as Lian Yuan." From this, it can be seen that Fan Zhongyan was first selected by the Li family as a son-in-law and then married. Li married into the Fan family and had three sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Chunyou, the second son, Junren, and the third son, Junri. Fan Chunren (1027-1101), courtesy name Yaofu, was a jinshi in the first year of the Imperial Household and an official to the prime minister. To this day, in the area of Shan County and Cao County in southwest Lu, people with the surname Fan often paste couplets on the gate during the New Year with the words "Zhongxuan Shize, Wenzheng Family Style". Fan Zhong's nickname was "Wenzheng" and Fan Chunren's nickname was "Zhongxuan". This couplet admonishes the descendants of the Fan clan to inherit and carry forward the high style and bright festival of the ancestors from generation to generation, to cherish the world, and to be loyal and courageous.
In the third year of the Emperor's reign, Fan Zhongyan served as a pacifying envoy to The Prefecture of Zhiqing Prefecture and the Prefectures of Zi and Wei. When the plague spread around Qingzhou and encountered a famine, Fan Zhong flooded the si nong to save the famine, and also created a way of work-for-work relief and relief, allowing the people to replace the imperial grain with money, exempting them from the pain of long-distance transportation, and quickly survived the famine. At the same time, he visited local famous doctors, collected folk prescriptions, carefully studied, absorbed the yanghe spring water, and combined medicines to make "Qingzhou White Pills" and distributed them to the people, stopping the epidemic of the plague. Just at this time, there was a spring gushing out on the nanyang river in Qingzhou, and the people thought that Fan Gong's merit had touched the heavens, so they named it "Liquan" and built a pavilion by the spring. Later, the name of "Liquan" was changed to "Fan Gongjing" and the pavilion was called "Fan Gongting". Engraved on the pillar facing the pavilion is a pair of yanglian: "The well nourishes the infinite trillion people to allow it; the fountain is inexhaustible and flows through the world." It expresses the admiration and nostalgia of posterity for Fan Gong.
There is the Three Sages Ancestral Hall in the east of the pavilion, which is the place where the descendants worship the three Qingzhou Zhizhou Fan Zhongyan, Fu Bi and Ouyang Xiu. Fan Gong Ancestral Hall is centered, and there is a statue of Fan Zhongyun inside. In the eighteenth year of Qing Shunzhi (1661), Xia Yifeng, the prefect of Qingzhou, built the "Houle Hall" on the high platform behind the shrine, taking the meaning of "the worries of the world before the world, and the happiness of the world after the world". In 1934, Feng Yuxiang visited Fan Gongting, and once wrote a joint book and erected a monument to commemorate it. Lian Yun: "Soldier armor is rich in chest, even if he is taught to ride and fly, he is also afraid of that old boy; he is worried about the world, and I hope that today's people will be excited and excited, and they will all learn from this Mr. Xiucai." ”
When Fan Zhong flooded Qingzhou, he was still vigorous and vigorous in his twilight years, and his sickly body still had ambitions. During this period, he wrote a poem "Climbing the Table Sea Tower": "In a belt of Lin Luanxiu, every time he comes to the threshold, he opens his eyebrows." Good mountains will be poetic, leaving the sunset infinite. This poem fully expresses Fan Zhongyan's feelings of "martyrs in their twilight years and their hearts are strong".
In the fourth year of the Emperor's reign, Fan Zhongyan was allowed to migrate to Yingzhou, and died of illness on May 20 in Xuzhou, on the way to Yingzhou. Fan Zhong's time in knowing Qingzhou was short, and it was also the last stop of his life journey, but it left a thousand years of thoughts for future generations.
Edit: Qi Zeyao
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