When Zhongyan was two years old, his father died and his mother remarried to Zhujia. He still lives with his mother. Such a situation aroused Fan Zhongyan to study hard and want to change his luck and play cards with common sense. He kept on studying and never stopped. What kind of form did Fan Zhongyan take when he was studying? According to historical records:
Day and night, the winter moon dries up and the noodles are rich in water; If there is no food, people can't stand it, and if they are swallowed up by the flood, they won't be very bitter.
Hard work pays off. As a result of studying so hard, Fan Zhongyan became an excellent teacher and stood out in the imperial examinations.
In the eighth year of Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu (10 15), Fan Zhongyan was named "Zhu Shuo". He was hired as the general consultant of Guangdejun, and served as an official of Jiuping City in litigation, prison and case affairs. Fan Zhongyan embarked on a formal career and started his special life course.
If Fan Zhongyan's official career is to be described in one sentence, then his brave and patriotic poems in Yueyang Tower will open a new aesthetic situation for Song Ci. Expanded his poetry. At the same time, it also opened the creative purpose of Song Ci, making it close to social life and real life.
Sketching Silver Lantern and Ouyang Subtitle and Ding Excerpt are two books, one is about historical events and people, and the other is about chanting things. Judging from the theme of Fan Zhongyan's poems, his poems generally conform to his creative style. Fan Zhongyan's creation is a process from the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties to the early Northern Song Dynasty.
The sincere, sincere and attractive poetic style of Fan Zhongyan's works has also greatly changed the style of the Song people. His creative opinions have led to the change of the creative atmosphere in the field of ci poetry, which has had a far-reaching and lasting impact on the poetic creation field of later generations.
Fan Zhongyan was invited by Prime Minister Yan Shu to teach in the famous Yingtian Academy, and trained a large number of well-known officials and scholars. He is well aware of the importance of education to the country. He once shouted, "If you are good at your country, don't educate people first. Educate people and don't persuade them to learn!" Under the guidance of the thought of respecting teachers and attaching importance to morality, Fan Zhongyan always studied first and then hired. Later, when he became deputy prime minister, he ordered all counties to run schools. When he was an official in Suzhou, he bought a piece of land called Nanyuan and wanted to build a private house. Mr. Feng Shui told him that he had bought a treasure house of Feng Shui. Fan Zhongyan was overjoyed. Since it is a treasure trove of geomantic omen, it is better to regard it as a school and let it continuously cultivate talents useful to society. Wouldn't it be better to have more officials or nobles than my family? So he built Suzhou County School here, which is the predecessor of the now famous Suzhou Middle School.