Chen Fan of the Eastern Han Dynasty: The eldest husband is in the world, when he sweeps the world, can an affair be a house?

We have all heard such a saying: why sweep the world without sweeping a house?

In fact, the above sentence is a rebuttal to another sentence, that is: the big husband is in the world, when he sweeps the world, can he do a house?

This young man who was determined to sweep the world was Chen Fan, a famous scholar and important minister in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

At that time, Chen Fan was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and his father's friend passed by his study, saw that his study was chaotic, and asked him why he did not clean it.

Chen Fan was reading, and when he looked up, he retorted that the eldest husband should be determined to sweep the world, how could he sweep a room?

My father's friend immediately asked, why sweep the world without sweeping a house? Chen Fan was speechless and pulled up his father's friends to clean up together.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Qingliu celebrities adhered to the ideal of the homeland and just took on the responsibility, Chen Fan was the representative of this haoran style, and along with him, Li Ping and Guo Tai, known as the "Three Juns".

In the last years of the Han Huan Emperor, the people's livelihood of the empire was in difficulty, the eunuchs were in power, the world was in chaos, Li Bing was framed and convicted, and Chen Fan alone supported the crisis.

After Emperor Ling of Han ascended the throne, Chen Fan was appointed as an auxiliary chancellor, and at this time the eunuchs Cao Jie and Wang Fu had monopoly power and the court was dirty.

Chen Fan and his foreign relatives secretly plotted to get rid of the two, but unexpectedly leaked the wind, the two eunuchs preemptively attacked, Chen Fan led the attendants and students to fight to the death, the result was defeated and arrested, before dying, wang Fu and Cao Jie slapped and humiliated, hating to die.

In fact, Chen Fan had many opportunities to retreat and avoid disasters.

During the reign of Emperor Shun of Han, he offended the magnates and was demoted to Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, as a taishou.

Chen Fan learned that there was a famous local hermit, Xu Fan, and after he arrived, he did not enter the yamen and went straight to the Xu family.

His subordinates obstructed, believing that official business should come first. Chen Fan said that when King Wu of Zhou saw the door of the Shang Rong residence of the Shang Dynasty's liangchen Shang Rong, he did not even sit in the car seat, so he stood up and saluted, and he went to visit the celebrities, why not?

Later, he and Xu Xi became close friends, often talking about the world's major events, sometimes talking too late, so he specially prepared a bed for Xu in his bedroom and left him for the night.

Chen Fan hoped that Xu Fan could serve the imperial court, and whenever he talked about this matter, Xu Fan smiled and said nothing. In the end, Xu Fan did not go out of the mountain, because he knew that the Eastern Han Dynasty would fall, and even if there was Chen Fan, it would not help.

Chen Fan and Xu Fan are close friends and also have the talent to govern the world, but their fates are completely different, in the final analysis, they uphold different beliefs in the world.

Chen Fan repeatedly retreated from the world as a criticism; he took benevolence as his duty, although the road was far away and powerful.

Today, we are born in the Taiping dynasty, not in the chaotic world in which Chen Fan lived, but his belief in the world can be seen everywhere in the small daily things.

Do you have a kind heart and help others? Or do you see the world clearly and be alone?