Fan Zhongyan was ambitious since childhood and never stopped studying hard. At the age of 26 (10 15), he was promoted to a scholar. 1040, he became the deputy envoy of Shaanxi Province as a "Bachelor of Longtuge", and he also knew that Yanzhou resisted the invasion of Xixia. 1043 after he became deputy prime minister,
1044 After arriving in Dengzhou, he was still ambitious, took the world as his responsibility, vigorously promoted education, and successively presided over the construction of Baihuazhou, Chunfengtang, Lanxiuting and other buildings in the southeast corner of the city. At the invitation of his good friend Teng Zongliang (Nanyang native, see note), he wrote the immortal masterpiece Yueyang. "Happy after the world" has also become an eternal swan song that inspires future generations. Nanyang people are proud to have such officials in history. But few people in Nanyang know that Fan Zhongyan is a devout Buddhist. His ideological basis of being honest and loving the people as a son lies in Buddhism. Now in the book of Buddhism, I will introduce Fan Zhongyan's practice of Buddhism and getting along with eminent monks for your purpose.
Fan Zhongyan's Story Fan Zhongyan was a great politician, strategist and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty more than 1000 years ago. He has been an honest official all his life and can protect the country with literature. His famous saying, "Worry about the world first, and enjoy the world later" shines like gold, which is the inexhaustible spiritual wealth of China people.
First, he is an official. People can rest assured that if you walk eastward from the lotus pond at the foot of Fanwen Mountain, you can see a boulder named "Yin Shi" in the mountain stream. It is said that this is the official seal of the public. On the left, there are three houses, namely, the story of "Curse Bowl Temple" and "Dragon Boat Festival Mat Porridge" that Gong studied since childhood.
When Fan Zhongyan was two years old, his father, Fan Yong, died of illness, and his mother patched others to make ends meet. He often only eats porridge twice a day, but he is ambitious. Once he and his mother went to the temple to burn incense, prayed before God and asked the Bodhisattva, "Can I be a prime minister in the future?" If you can be a prime minister, you must be a good prime minister; if you can't be a prime minister, you must be a good doctor. "Good looks and good doctors can benefit mankind. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan studied hard since he was a child.
Studying in the curse bowl temple, because I am poor, I have to cook a pot of porridge every day. In winter, I put porridge in a basin, freeze it and then cut it into pieces. The food is a piece of snow that farmers often eat. This is the story that was later called "Broken Porridge". Later, when his mother died, he mourned in the curse bowl nunnery. Because he lost the only support in life, he studied hard. Fan Zhongyan has an old friend named Shi. His father is an official and his family is very rich. He was moved to see him studying in poverty. One day, I brought a lot of wine, meat and other good dishes to get together with him. In fact, he intended to help him, but Fan Zhongyan turned him down. Fan Zhongyan said, "Thank you for bringing such good dining tables."
When Fan Zhongyan was studying in a temple in Suiyang, one day Song Zhenzong, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, passed by. After hearing the news, the teachers and students of the whole school made a sensation. They all thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for ordinary people to see "Tian Yan", so they flocked to watch it. Only Fan Zhongyan stayed to continue his studies. People asked him such a rare opportunity. Why don't you go and have a look? Fan Zhongyan replied, "It's not too late to see him again."
Fan Zhongyan is a poor man, unmoved by greed. When he was young, he studied at Liquan Temple in Changshan, Suiyang. He often sleeps till dawn with his clothes on. Once he happened to find a piece of silver buried in his room, but he still hid it silently. Later, Fan Zhongyan became a big official, and the monks in the temple asked him for donations. He wrote a letter, and sure enough, he found money in his original room, and the monks staggered.
When he was an official in Suzhou, he bought a homestead in Nanyuan and prepared to build a house to live in. Mr. Feng Shui congratulated him at the first sight: "This is a treasure land, and there will be many officials building houses here." Fan Zhongyan said with a smile, "instead of monopolizing the treasure land, why not give up running schools and let more officials and officials have talents?" So he founded an institution of higher learning and extended his stay, which was taught by famous teachers.
Some people think that you can be an official as long as you study. So the school was once overcrowded, and all the young people in Yaoshe Village went to school. At that time, even the fields were deserted, and even food was not eaten after autumn. After seeing this situation, Fan Zhongyan went to persuade and explained the relationship between "learning to be excellent and being an official" and "food is the sky for the people". Many people gave up and happily returned to their hometown to farm.
In his 60s, Fan Zhongyan became an official in Hangzhou, so he retired voluntarily. His younger brother told his disciples to build a garden in Luoyang to enjoy this happiness. He said to his disciples, "What other flower gardens are there?" One day, he came to Tianping Mountain and saw a Feng Shui gentleman choosing a cemetery for others. He only heard this Feng Shui gentleman say, "This place is a land of five tigers and sheep (there are five bare stone mountains around it with a ridge in the middle). The stone belongs to the tiger, the earth and the sheep, so it is called the Five Tigers and the Sheep.) The stone in the book is like a Jedi, and it will be unique in the Five Dynasties. " Hearing this, Fan Zhongyan thought it was really difficult for me to be an official. Let me buy it as a ancestral grave so that the younger generation will no longer be an official. If you want to be unique, don't let him harm others, so he bought it as a ancestral grave. The people feel sorry for this, so they are right. God, if you are really effective, help us ordinary people and let the Fan family have more people like his old man's house. The night Fan Zhongyan's great-grandfather was buried, it was strange to say that there were still stars all over the sky, but then there was lightning and thunder, and then there was a storm, which erected all the boulders in Baiyun Mountain and turned them into "a thousand arrows pierced the sky", turning the Jedi into treasures. Tianping Mountain was buried by Fan Zhongyan.