Fan Zhongyan's Talk on Kindness and Reading (Addendum)

If a family wants to prosper for a long time, it depends on kindness and reading. Fan Zhongyan's family is the best example.

There is nothing better than doing good deeds.

When Fan Zhongyan was very young, he once looked for a fortune teller. When we met, we asked, "Take a look at it for me. Can I be the prime minister? " The fortune teller was startled. He said to Fan Zhongyan, "Why are you so angry at your age?" Fan Zhongyan was embarrassed and said, "Do you think I can be a doctor?" The fortune teller was puzzled and asked, "Why are these two ambitions so different?" Fan Zhongyan replied: "Because only a good doctor can save people."

The fortune teller was very moved after hearing this, and said to Fan Zhongyan, "You are so kind-hearted, and you will definitely be a prime minister in the future."

Later, Fan Zhongyan really became prime minister. He helped students, reduced corvee, established a field of righteousness, and did good in Huize.

In Tian Yi Ji, written by Qian Gongfu in Song Dynasty, it is recorded that "Gong and Su people also ... bought Guo Changren's 1,000 mu of land and called it Yi Tian to support people of all ethnic groups. There is food every day, clothing every year, and support for weddings and funerals. A wise man in the family is in charge of his plan, and he is an official, so he can't give it. "

Fan Zhongyan spent a lot of money to buy thousands of acres of fertile land. Instead of enclosure to get rich, he used these fields as public welfare fields to protect the people from hunger and cold. His descendants inherited his kindness and continued his kindness for hundreds of years.

Yitian was destroyed because of the war. Fan Zhongyan's fifth grandchildren, Fan Liangqi and Fan Ju Rou, donated all their private property, which restored Yitian to its original state. Fan Zhongyan planted a kind seed in his home, and later generations continued to fertilize and irrigate it until it grew into a big tree, which sheltered his descendants and propagated for 800 years from the Song Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Kindness is an unbearable heart. Over the years, this temperament will be deposited on the body and engraved on the face. A person's temperament cannot be faked. Kind people always have good popularity, and people are always willing to help them, so their life path is smoother.

Kindness is the bottom line. Once a person can't be kind, it is easy to harm others, and disaster will follow. Therefore, Ceng Zi said: People are kind. Although the blessing has not yet arrived, the disaster is far from coming. It is better to be kind to others than to pray to God and worship Buddha. Kindness is a person's best amulet.

The only heirloom is reading.

Su Shi said in "San Tang Huai Ming": "Faithfulness and faithfulness have been handed down for a long time, and poetry and books last forever." The prosperity and continuity of a family includes not only kindness and kindness, but also reading and learning.

Fan Zhongyan once talked about children's education in "Letter from Home, Letter from China Society: 1". Urge children to study hard and practice hard, and don't let them muddle along.

Second, let them know that only by studying can they become officials and achieve something.

My brother wanted to let his son enter through the back door and let Fan Zhongyan enroll his two children, but Fan Zhongyan sternly refused. He hopes that his sons and nephews can study hard, learn by real talents and not be looked down upon by others.

Fan Zhongyan said: "farming and reading are not lazy, and entrepreneurship is the foundation; Do not abandon the word paper, the treasure of the world. " And take this sentence as a family motto. Under his education, all the descendants of the Fan family studied hard, and many famous ministers and good looks emerged, which became a beautiful talk in the world.

Throughout the ages, there is not an accomplished person who doesn't like reading. Wang Yangming was demoted to the Dragon Field, but he still did not forget to study the Book of Changes in a poisonous place. Zeng Guofan was a soldier for half his life, and he also took time to read books during the March.

Open a good book, we can gain all kinds of unknown knowledge, understand different experiences and even listen to the wisdom of life.

It can broaden people's horizons, give people spiritual motivation and nourishment, make people open-minded, have a high vision and become a rich person.

As Yao Wentian said in the Qing Dynasty, "The old home in the world has been accumulated for hundreds of years, and the best thing in the world is reading."

Reading is not only a ladder for one's progress, but also an inexhaustible motive force for the prosperity of a family.