Preamble:
Gorky said: "How great and how strong people are in their struggle for a better life. It tells me how much people have accomplished in the world and endured incredible hardships for it. ”
Whether it is suffering or merit, everything that was familiar to the past is gone. Years, dirt, friends, enemies, blades of grass, suffering, glory... It's just that when those things come, we've missed them, but still remember...
Part 1
When Fan Zhongyun is mentioned, people will think of his popular prose masterpiece, reciting his age-old admonition that worries the country and the people: the world is worried and worried, and the world is happy after that. For thousands of years, Fan Zhongyun's broad mind of not being happy with things and not being sad with himself, and the moral demeanor of sympathizing with the hardships of people's livelihood and caring for the sufferings of the people, has traveled through historical time and space and is still shining.
Fan Zhongyan (989-1052) was a famous politician and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, known in history as the "first person of the Song Dynasty". He was born in a cold, lost his father at the age of two, his mother took him to remarry, his childhood life was very poor, when he grew up, he studied hard, studied hard day and night, and finally passed the entrance examination with his own skills. After others entered politics, they had both culture and martial arts, and they were good at people, happy and loving, and cared about the people's livelihood.
Part 2
In the second year of the Ming Dynasty (1033), locust plagues and droughts spread throughout the country, and huainan and Jingdong were seriously affected. Fan Zhongyan, who was sensitive to the government and dared to give direct advice, asked the imperial court to inspect and deal with it, but the imperial court ignored it and ignored it. He was very angry and risked his life to ask the emperor Song Renzong: "What will happen if the people in the palace do not eat for half a day?" How can the starving people in Jianghuai and other places turn a blind eye and not provide relief? The emperor was speechless, so he sent him to appease the victims.
Whenever Fan Zhongyan went to a place, he opened an official warehouse to help the disaster victims, sent official money to the people, and led the masses to produce and save themselves. When he returned to Beijing, Fan Zhongyan also specially brought back the victims to talk about the hungry, bitter and unpalatable weed "Wuwei Grass", and presented it to Song Renzong, asking him to convey the noble relatives of the Six Palaces and the imperial court up and down, so as to persuade them not to forget the sufferings of the people and put an end to the vices of luxury.
Fan Zhongyan brought back to the capital not only a few "black grasses", but also his consistent affection for the people. When Fan Zhongyun was an official in Dengzhou, one day he and his subordinates went upstairs to feast and drink, and just wanted to raise a glass, when they suddenly saw several people wearing filial piety clothes downstairs, and they were despondently sorting out funeral utensils. He hurriedly put down his wine glass and asked someone to ask, it turned out to be a poor student living in the local area who had recently died of illness.
Part 3
Friends wanted to bury him in the suburbs, but not a single funeral item. Fan Zhongyan was silent when he heard the resignation, and he did not know the taste of food, so he immediately ordered the banquet to be removed, and a lot of money was taken out to ask people to bury it well. The strike banquet and the gift are not great achievements that benefit the people's livelihood, but Fan Zhongyun, who is the defender of one party, is actually so emotional for the misfortune of a poor student, how can it not be admired and awe-inspiring!
Ya Zhai lay down to listen to Xiao Xiaozhu, suspected to be the voice of folk suffering. Some small Wucao Prefecture county officials, one branch and one leaf are always concerned. No matter what position fan Zhongyan held in or where he was, he always had "the people of the whole city" in his heart, and what he gave up was "a rich family.". Because he was ostracized by some of the powerful people in the imperial court, he was expelled from the imperial court in the second year of the locust plague and demoted to his hometown of Renzhi Prefecture in Suzhou. In Suzhou, Mr. Feng Shui once suggested to him that Wolong Street is a treasure land, the south end of the street is the dragon head, the north end of the street is the dragon tail, if you build a house here, the descendants can be officials for generations, glory for thousands of years.
However, Fan Zhongyan said: "My Fan family is rich, not as rich as the people of Suzhou." Therefore, he built an academy on this "treasure land", founded a state school, invited the famous teacher Su Ru to give a lecture, and took the time to personally lecture at the college. For a time, the sound of string chanting was incessant, and Suzhou Prefecture's scientific name was crowned southeast, cultivating a large number of talents for the long-term prosperity of the local area.
Part 4
When Fan Zhongyan was an official in Hangzhou in his later years, he also used his life savings to purchase Yizhuang, Yitian, and Yizhuang in the suburbs to support the poor and poor people, so that they would "have food every day, clothing for the years, and housing for their lives." However, he was frugal all his life, "although he was rich and poor," when he died of illness at the age of 63, his family had no surplus wealth, "he had nothing to be buried, and he could not be buried when he died." Fan Zhongzun has left a material legacy for future generations to enjoy, but has left behind a pure and noble moral character and a fine style of loving the people like a son for all generations and the Chinese nation. After a thousand years, the admonition that "the world is worried and worried, and the world is happy and happy" is still lingering. The eons of an aphorism, the longevity of an ancient person, will not be for no reason.
The people are the foundation of the country, and loving the people is to govern the country. As Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty said: "Those who are good for the country, love the people like parents and sons, brothers love brothers, hear their hunger and cold and mourn, and see their hard work and sorrow." "In the face of Fan Zhongyun, feeling Fan Zhongyun, won't those who are engaged in politics and officials have the resonance of feelings and the resonance of their hearts?"
Trek: The world is far away, the wind and clouds have changed, walking along the years, the vigorous pursuit that was once chased has also returned to plain and plain. Those who have a heart are tired, those who have no heart do not matter, they are voluntary, they have no regrets, they do not fail to meet, and they do not talk about indebtedness.
In the footsteps of the great people of history, we seem to be able to hear the rolling thunder of history, and it seems that we can see a slightly hazy beauty!
(Remarks: The picture source network in the article)