As soon as many people talk about Fan Zhongyan, they will immediately think of the famous "The Story of Yueyang Tower", especially the sentence "The worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world." "It's a household name. Many people know that Fan Zhongyan was an official in the Northern Song Dynasty and became the prime minister, and was later deposed and degraded because he offended the vested interest groups in the DPRK and China because of reforms.
But many people don't know that Fan Zhongyan was not called Fan Zhongyan when he was young, but called Zhu Shuo, what is going on?
Fan Zhongyan's childhood can be described as miserable, but at the same time, his childhood was full of inspiration. Fan Zhongyan's biological father is called Fan Yong, a lower-level petty official in the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan's mother Xie is a concubine, the children born to the ancient concubine basically have no status in the family, his father was fine when he was there, unfortunately when Fan Zhongyan was only two years old, his father died, his father died, and Fan Zhongyan's mother and son were even more sad in the Fan family.
Fan Zhongyan's mother and son couldn't stand the exclusion of the main house, and in order to make a living, his mother took him and was forced to remarry and marry Zhu Wenhan, so Fan Zhongyan changed his name to Zhu Shuo. This Zhu Wenhan is also a petty official, similar to his father's position, but Zhu Wenhan is generous, treats Fan Zhongyan as his own, although the salary is not high, but he fully guarantees the living needs of Fan Zhongyan's mother and son, and does his best to teach the young Fan Zhongyan to read and write, so that Fan Zhongyan is grateful to him for life.
Fan Zhongyan, who became an adult, was not accustomed to the waste of Zhu Wenhan's biological sons, and in the process of persuasion, they were angry and said: "We spent the Zhu family's money, what does it have to do with you" Fan Zhongyan only knew his life experience at this time, his self-esteem was greatly hurt, in order to fight for himself, and in order to repay Zhu Wenhan in the future, he ignored his mother's dissuasion, insisted on going to study in Yingtianfu Free Academy, and swore to be self-reliant.
After Fan Zhongyan arrived at Yingtianfu Academy, his life was extremely difficult, he could only cook a pot of thin porridge every day, divided into four pieces, two pieces in the morning and two in the evening, cut a little shepherd's cabbage, sprinkle a little salt and eat it like this. In such a difficult environment, he studied extremely hard, and during his five-year reading career, he slept every night without taking his clothes, so that he could get up and continue reading immediately after waking up, and wash his face with cold water when he was sleepy. Almost every moment is reading, really do not listen to the outside of the window, once the emperor came to Yingtian to hold a grand worship event, the classmates all ran out to see the excitement, only Fan Zhongyan is still studying in the academy, friends asked him why he didn't go to see the emperor, he said that he would see sooner or later, and he was not in a hurry at this time.
Five years later, Fan Zhongyan was successful in his studies, entered high school, and since then he has stepped into his career and taken his mother to his side to support him.