"Do not rejoice in things, do not grieve with oneself", "If you live in the temple, you worry about your people; if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you worry about your king", "Before the world is worried and worried, after the world is happy and happy"... These ancient famous sentences are from the pen of Fan Zhongyan of the Northern Song Dynasty, and they all come from the famous "Yueyang LouJi".
The reason why Yueyang Louji can become a famous passage throughout the ages is because his lyrical writing of Jing Yanzhi is very elaborate, so it is widely praised. Moreover, it has been compiled into China's modern language textbooks, which can also be seen as one of the few biographical literature in books. In recent years, on whether the Yueyang Louji should continue to be retained in the textbook, a number of experts have put forward research opinions, to the effect that the "Yueyang Louji" has a lot of controversy, so many parents have believed that this article should be removed from the textbook. Let's hear what they have to say.
First, why should it be deleted?
The reason why Fan Zhongyan wrote the "Record of Yueyang Lou" was because he was entrusted by his good friend, The Taishou Teng zijing of Baling County, who was also mentioned at the beginning, when he rebuilt the Yueyang Lou, so he asked Fan Zhongyan to write an article.
This is what Fan Zhongyan wrote in the "Record of Yueyang Lou": "In the spring of the fourth year of the Qing calendar, Teng Zijing guarded Baling County. The next year, the more the government is connected to the people, and a hundred wastes are flourishing. It is to rebuild the Yueyang Tower, increase its old system, and carve the poems of Tang Xian and the present people on it." The opinions of experts are related to Teng Zijing.
1. Teng Zijing's way of dealing with the world
Teng Zijing, mingzong yu, a native of Henan. In 1015, Teng Zijing and Fan Zhongyan were admitted to the jinshi at the same time and entered the career path, and it was at this time that the two became friends, but since then, Teng Zijing has been a grass-roots cadre such as a military push official, and Fan Zhongyan, because he was appreciated by the chancellor Wang Zeng, was promoted and transferred to the capital, became a Beijing official, and worked around the emperor.
After that, Fan Zhongyan also recommended Teng Zijing to the imperial court, and transferred Teng Zijing to the capital, which shows the depth of friendship between the two.
In 1029, When Emperor Renzong of Song was 19 years old, Empress Liu was still implementing the curtain to listen to the government, unwilling to return the power of the government to Song Renzong. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan and Teng Zijing successively wrote to the imperial court, asking Empress Liu to return the government to Emperor Renzong of Song, but unfortunately, until the two defended against the northwest, this matter did not change.
In 1040, Fan Zhongyan was sent to the northwest frontier to prevent the invasion of Western Xia, and it was during this period of life that Fan Zhongyan wrote the famous article "Fisherman's Pride Qiusi". Later, on the recommendation of Fan Zhongyan, Teng Zijing also came to the northwest frontier and served as the governor of Jingzhou in Gansu, assisting Fan Zhongyan in fighting against the enemy.
At that time, when the Western Xia army attacked on a large scale, the land of Jingzhou bore the brunt of it. Teng Zijing's soldiers were widowed, but he did not flinch, leading his men to fight in a bloody battle, and together with thousands of peasants, they held the city. Later, after Fan Zhongyan received his letter of help, he led the Song army to break the siege.
After this battle, Teng Zijing distributed 160,000 yuan of public funds to the soldiers to treat the border guards, to comfort the bereaved family, and to pay tribute to the heroes. This matter was very rebellious in the eyes of the imperial court, and then Teng Zijing was reported for private use of public funds, and when the imperial court sent people to inspect, Teng Zijing actually burned the account book and excused himself, so the imperial court suspected that he was full of private pockets and had no evidence, so he was demoted to Baling County.
After that, he went here for a year, built a lot of civil engineering, repaired canals and schools, and Yueyang Lou was also rebuilt at this time, but he used non-public funds, what the hell is going on? According to records, Teng Zijing did not use the provincial treasury public funds, but adopted the revitalization of the arrears of the old people, that is, with the convenience of the official government, for the people's debts, whose debts do not return can be entrusted to the official government, and the official government extracts a little from it.
It can be seen from this that Teng Zijing can be called a controversial official.
It's just that one thing Teng Zijing did after repairing Baling County made his reputational infamy pass on for a thousand years. At that time, he rebuilt the Yueyang Tower in Yuezhou, held a government school, and planned to build a weir and rainbow embankment in Dongting Lake.
However, before the canal was completed, he smugly wanted to take this as a political achievement, and begged the three great literary heroes of the world, Fan Zhongyan, Yin Su, and Ouyang Xiu, to write a "record" of these three achievements.
He was friends with Fan Zhongyan, Yin Su, and Ouyang Xiu, and since they were friends, it was not easy to resign when he begged him, so he could only reluctantly write an article for his difficulties and advocate for him.
In fact, the achievements of the government are not yet visible; the Weihong Causeway only has a plan and has not been built at all, only the planning on the drawings has been praised by Ouyang Xiu as the of a hundred steps, the danger of danger in the world, benefiting its people and reaching Jing, Tan, Qian, and Shu, all those who travel to and from the lake, those who have no distance are all benefited by it, among these three articles, the Record of Yueyang Lou is the most famous, and the process of building Yueyang Lou is also more classic, although Yueyang Lou is really rebuilt, but there are also improprieties in it, and the absurdity of fixing this matter has attracted people's criticism.
2. Fan Zhongyan did not reach the Yueyang Tower
This is the main reason why parents think that it should be deleted, when Fan Zhongyun was in the northwest to resist the enemy and had meritorious service, and only after returning to the imperial court did he hear that Teng Zijing was guarding Baling County, and the following year Teng Zijing asked him to help write an article to record the inheritance.
Fan Zhongyan was famous in the government and politics of the dynasty, "ning ming and die, not silently born", and his personality was noble. But he is also a famous gentleman of benevolence, who has always been very protective of his relatives and friends, and has always responded to every request.
So in this matter, for many years of friends, Fan Zhongyan wanted to say that it was written in the article. He was well aware of Teng Zijing's strengths and weaknesses, an old friend who had once been brilliant but informal, and now he was gradually becoming addicted to fame and fortune, and psychologically depressed.
So Fan Zhongyan decided to write an article to recognize him, guide him, inspire him, but also a kind of common encouragement, "not to be happy with things, not to be sad", but this "Yueyang Lou" that has never been to Yueyang Lou, but has been circulated in the world, was born.
For this reason, many parents think that Teng Zijing is not a good official, not suitable to appear in the textbook as a singing, and he does not care that Fan Zhongyun has never seen Yueyang Lou in order to seek fame, resulting in such a scene-appropriate text as "Yueyang Lou", which was actually written in fan Zhongyan's failure to arrive at the field, so that the authenticity of the article will be greatly reduced.
Second, why not delete?
1. Teng Zijing is very small, and he may not be a good official
In fact, in the Yueyang Lou Record, only mentioned Teng Zijing as an official in the opening paragraph, although the words of waste and new are somewhat exaggerated, but this is the friendship between old friends, and the content of the article is extremely rich, and it should not be because of Teng Zijing's criticism, because in addition to the first sentence, the rest of this prose is not written for Teng Zijing.
Moreover, in fact, whether Teng Zijing is a corrupt official or not is also quite controversial. For example, when Fan Zhongyan was serving as a salt official in Taizhou, Teng Zijing served in Taizhou.
The local Hanhai Weir, built in the Tang Dynasty, has been overwhelmed by perennial sea erosion, and whenever a storm strikes, the backfilling of seawater will cause heavy losses to the coastal people. So Fan Zhongyan put forward the proposal to rebuild the Hanhai Weir, and in the process of repairing the embankment, Fan Zhongyan and Teng Zijing braved the wind and rain together to repair the embankment project.
After the embankment was built, this embankment was called "Fan Gong Causeway", but the image of Teng Zijing loving the people like a son and daring to be the first left a deep impression on Fan Zhongyan. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan regarded him as a confidant, and later also recommended Teng Zijing.
2. Fan Zhongyan's ambition is worth learning
In Fan Zhongyan's eyes, whether it is Teng Zijing's good name and good fortune or self-harm, it is not worth a moment, neither worthy of praise nor criticism, so he wrote "do not like things, do not grieve with yourself." Then he led to the guidance that "if you live in the temple, you worry about the people; if you are far away, you worry about the king", telling him that the direction of his heart is much more important than the location, which is both a political call to stay here and an ethical admonition.
Therefore, there is no point in collecting wealth and seeking fame, and there is no point in lamenting and sighing, "it is to enter and worry, and to retreat and worry", but when is it happy? Since scholars and masters regard the world as their own responsibility and care about the country, how can they covet glory and wealth? Presumably, this is also the harshest criticism of his old friend Teng Zijing.
Monarchs, when "the world is worried and worried, and the world is happy and happy" - this sentence is bold and grand, and it must be understood by the Chinese side in the political situation at that time. We can no longer examine how much of a role these exhortations have played for Teng Zijing, but these sentences have become inspirational teachings for the world's aspirations.
epilogue
We often say that reading should be viewed in context, and we understand that Teng Zijing's status as an official is controversial, and we cannot afford to sing the praises of his exploits.
When we also once read that Fan Zhongyan was poor since childhood, every time after cooking rice, he had to wait until the porridge condensed into pieces before cutting it into pieces, even so he also had great ambitions, so he later became an official and upright, and the article was heroic and worthy of our careful reading and taste, so after we learned the background, I may not be so entangled in whether Fan Zhongyun went to Yueyang Tower in the end.
"Yueyang Lou" can be passed down through the ages is not unreasonable, the article whether it is narrative lyricism or scene writing are extremely appropriate, never climbed the building, but the beautiful scenery is depicted so loud and colorful, it can be seen that the writing is high; and sentence after sentence of direct lyricism is even more shocking to the present, causing how many people will benefit the people as their responsibility, as a lifelong pursuit.
Reference: "Yueyang LouJi"
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