Because Fan Zhong drowned three words, read a bad book

That's the influence of celebrities.

Of course, this is somewhat different from buying fake and shoddy rotten goods because of the advocacy of an Internet celebrity or a drama. After all, this book is a biography written for Fan Zhongyan.

Zhou Zongqi's "The World of Sorrow: Fan Zhongyun's Biography" finished reading, to tell the heart, yesterday read a small part of the front of the whole book, I did not feel that this is a bad book, today is entirely because of Fan Zhongyun's three words to insist on reading this book roughly.

The reason why it is "rough" is to almost quickly go through the original text of the long treatise directly quoted by the author, and it is also to quickly skip the nonsense that has nothing to do with the main theme of the biography.

So write down the final comment:

So far, I have read at least 20 biographies of people, and this one is the most watery. The author was able to write the biography of a great historical figure so watery, and it was also his skill.

In my rough estimation, there are probably more than half of the citations in the whole book. The whole passage quoted from the original text, and then casually laid out on the basis of the original text, coupled with the large text that has nothing to do with the main theme of the biography, is the result of this book.

This kind of shoddy writing is not worthy of the three words "Fan Zhongyun". Book lovers are advised to take a detour and not waste time. It is recommended to read the "Fan Zhongyun Anthology" directly, which is more meaningful than reading this book.

Rotten to rotten, when there is a feeling, I still casually wrote it down and shared it here. Perhaps, these feelings are much better than the original text.

P s: The following dark green font is the original text, and the reading notes are displayed in normal font.

The famous person Song Lian was his student.

Song Lian, let us immediately remember the inspirational article "Send Dongyang Horse Birth Sequence" that we memorized when we were students.

Famous teachers make high disciples, and this statement is indeed true.

Lonely Mountain is not his life station, it is his eternal home.

He has lamented this hermit poet many times, and has also been to his cemetery on the lonely hill of Hangzhou's West Lake many times, seen plum blossoms in his cemetery, and heard the birdsong in his cemetery.

Lin Kui is a person who lives as himself.

A heavy father's true mother, Masakasa Masakasa.

One heart to return the idea, ten mouths to the end of the world.

The copper tiger is thick and the perch tastes good.

How the saints repay, toothless and innocent.

Fan Zhongyan's poem is expressed in the mood of the whole family when they were degraded by the "Chincha" and "escorts" in the Month of Dazheng, and they could not read a trace of decadence and complaints, but read out all the courage and righteousness and loyalty to the country.

The more such a mind is, the more it reflects the obscenity of the faint emperor and the small courtiers. This phenomenon has emerged in successive dynasties and dynasties, and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty.

The Huai River, known as Huai Shui in ancient times, together with the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and Jishui, is now one of the seven major rivers in China. It originates in the valley on the northwest side of Taibaiding, the main peak of Tongbai Mountain in Henan Province, and flows through the four provinces of Henan, Hubei, Anhui and Jiangsu.

Reading this, similar to this kind of nonsense that has nothing to do with the main idea can be seen everywhere, and a rough estimate should account for about a quarter of the text content, and it is inevitable that there is a suspicion of random word count.

Reluctantly continued to read the book, the only reason is because of the three words "Fan Zhongyun".

From the standpoint of the state and the government, freedom of speech can encourage everyone to be willing to say the right theory and alarmism of "worrying about the form, afraid of not being blazing", instead of the vulgar tone of the villains singing praises and praising virtue and advocating ascension every day.

In fact, how many emperors, whether wise or faint, like to listen to flattery, like courtiers or subordinates to pat themselves on the ass, just as the so-called thousands of people wear horse ass and do not wear it, ancient and modern.

This provides sufficient soil for the cultivation of slaves, and the upward and downward effects are everywhere, and the slaves under a master are everywhere, the big slaves, the small slaves, the rings of slaves, and the suffering is only the common people.

Sun Tzu's Art of War is the greatest work of military theory in ancient China and the earliest in the world, 2,300 years before the European Clausewitz's Theory of War.

Are these analogies in many places in the book a demonstration of superiority as Chinese? This nonsense has nothing to do with the gist. It's weird. I suspect that this book was saved by students, and the more I read it, the more water it became!

Although the two changes in the Northern Song Dynasty ended in tragedy, they took into account the interests of the people and were replaced by the people, which is indeed a real change of law that is different from the previous generation.

Regarding the two changes in the Northern Song Dynasty, the author's view is too self-righteous. Leaving aside the Reform of the New Deal headed by Fan Zhongyan, as far as Wang An's change of law is concerned, it is impossible to do what the author said, "Ze was by the people", otherwise why would it fail!

The author's assumptions made me think that this biography was too watery and did not fit the author's professional writer's status, so I had to question whether this book was made by student gunmen.

Of course, whether it is an expert, a scholar, or a professor who does not live up to his name, it is not uncommon in this land where Fan Zhongyan once had high hopes.

What is three verbosity? There are unlimited officials in the world, one is redundant; the tianxia van army does not wear war and consumes food and clothing, and the second is redundant; the monastic path is increasingly numerous and indefinite, and the three are redundant. Don't go to the country.

The quotation from the Biography of Song Qi here, although it is also nonsense compared to this book, has triggered my thinking about reality. The so-called phenomenon of laziness and slackness in government is bound to be inextricably linked to the "three redundancies."

Evaluate the ancients, and can not be based on what "passed on", or comprehensive, fair, tolerant of a little better!

After reading this, I really understand what it means to be insincere and powerless. Does the author himself not know that the same mistake was made in this increasingly watery biographical text?

■ A reading note on the previous book

February 3, 2022