Is Fan Zhongyan's family prosperous for 800 years because "the world is public"?

From Fan Zhongyan's geomantic omen about ancestral graves and houses, we can see that Fan Zhongyan has a noble feeling of serving the public, breaking the curse of ancestral graves and making his family prosperous for 800 years.

Both ancient people and modern people pay attention to the burial of ancestral graves and the choice of houses, as if these can make the gods bring them good luck. People are often afraid of graves and houses with bad feng shui, and they are afraid of making themselves suffer bad luck again and again.

When Fan Zhongyan died, he also invited a Feng Shui master to sweep his mother's grave. The feng shui master said that his mother's grave was a "grave" and there would be no children at home, so he advised him to move it.

However, Fan Zhongyan said:

"Since I am a Jedi, I shouldn't suffer from others. I would rather suffer by myself; If I die, what's the use of moving the grave? "

As a result, Fan Zhongyan was willing to bear the fate of "Jedi" and did not let the "Jedi" with bad feng shui harm others, so he did not choose to move the grave.

When Fan Zhongyan became prime minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was also a famous geomantic treasure house called Nanyuan in Suzhou. Many people advised Fan Zhongyan to buy Nanyuan as a house. Because the house has good feng shui, future generations can be big officials and produce talents.

Fan Zhongyan said, however, the wealth of a family is too small. What is important is that everyone in the world is developed. So Fan Zhongyan bought Nanyuan to run Suzhou Academy to cultivate outstanding talents for the society.

Now Nanyuan in Suzhou is also the site of a high school in Suzhou.

From these two things, we can also see Fan Zhongyan's noble feelings of "worrying about the world first, then enjoying the world", such as "Yueyang Tower", which is thought by the people, helped by the people, dared to take responsibility, served the country and society, and served the world for the public.

It should be pointed out that it is a rumor that Fan Zhongyan's descendants have 80 champions and 400 scholars, and the essence is to admire Fan Zhongyan's noble personality. Fan Zhongyan's family has never seen any champion, or hundreds of Jinshi. Later generations described it this way, mostly out of admiration for Fan Zhongyan.

You know, after the implementation of the imperial examination system, the aristocratic families gradually disappeared. There was no Wang Xie family in the Song Dynasty that lasted for hundreds of years in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Therefore, Fan Zhongyan's descendants are prosperous, but not all of them are champions. There was a scholar named Fan in the Ming Dynasty, but he was not from Fan Zhongyan's family. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there appeared a descendant of Fan who influenced the historical process. Unfortunately, not a scholar. This man is Fan Wencheng, the founding hero of the Qing Dynasty.

As the saying goes, good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil. Fan Zhongyan's world is public, and God did not let Fan Zhongyan's descendants have no children. After his death, among the four sons, Fan Chunren became the prime minister, and the other three sons were also high officials. The Gong Fan family has flourished for 800 years. All the secrets lie in Fan Zhongyan's noble feelings of "the world is for the public", that is, the family style of "the world is for the public" educates future generations, has no desire to study, seeks happiness for the Li people, tries his best to be an official, and makes God not treat the Fan family badly.

"The world is for the public" has shaped Fan Zhongyan's political achievements.

Fan Zhongyan is also an example of a poor second-generation family. A typical poor child attacks life. When Fan Zhongyan was only two years old, his father died, and his mother was alone, taking her son to remarry in Zhujiajian.

Fan Zhongyan's biological mother, Xie, has been hardworking and simple all her life, and educated Fan Zhongyan to be a responsible, filial and responsible person. Fan Zhongyan's stepfather, Zhu, is honest and clean, lives a simple life, is an honest official, and is influenced by his parents' heart and sets an example. Fan Zhongyan also established the sentiment of serving the people of the world from an early age.

Fan Zhongyan felt that the world was public when he was a child. Once, when he met a fortune teller, he asked, "Please help me see if my fate can be a prime minister." .

When the fortune teller saw that Fan Zhongyan was young, he shouted out his arrogant words about becoming a prime minister, which really shocked him, so he immediately asked Fan Zhongyan, "How can you be so eloquent at such a young age?"

Fan Zhongyan was embarrassed, too, and then asked the fortune teller, "Do you think I can be a doctor?"

The fortune teller was very depressed. Why is there such a big gap between the former prime minister and the post-prime minister? He asked, "Why did you choose two volunteers?"

Fan Zhongyan then replied: "Only a good doctor can save people!"

After hearing this, the fortune teller was also moved by the child's kindness to care about charity and help the people of the world. Then he said, "You have such a heart. This is a real prime minister's heart, so you will definitely be a prime minister in the future."

Sure enough, Fan Zhongyan can also be a prime minister in the future. As can be seen from the fortune teller's words, Fan Zhongyan has the heart of "saving people", which is also the secret of his future appointment as prime minister. Strictly speaking, Fan Zhongyan was not a genius all his life, and he didn't start to make a fortune until middle age.

He has been a magistrate for more than ten years. Although his official position is low, he can make the local people live and work in peace and contentment. Because of Fan Zhongyan's outstanding achievements, the court also took a fancy to his ability and transferred him to the court as the right prime minister to remonstrate.

Later, Fan Zhongyan became prime minister in the imperial court, presided over the "Qingli New Deal", and reformed the shortcomings of the Northern Song government, that is, Fan Zhongyan's reform. The purpose was to reform the social malpractice at that time, but unfortunately it violated the interests of the powerful class and ended in relegation. However, although he was demoted, he had unique attainments in poetry and prose.

It can be seen that Fan Zhongyan was born with the feeling of "saving the people" because of his good family background, which also made him a famous reformer, politician, strategist and writer in the history of China.

Second, good family education.

Fan Zhongyan is well versed in the principle of "cultivating oneself, governing the country and leveling the world", attaches great importance to family education, and shapes a good family style through his own example, that is, the family style of "saving the world for the public" and "saving the world and saving the people", so that the descendants of the Fan family will prosper forever.

For example, Fan Zhongyan has four sons. Because the father is a court official, he is a senior cadre in Beijing today, and his children are also "the second generation of officials" and "the second generation of rich". It's okay to drive a BMW, play with women and brag about his dad's awesome life everywhere. However, Fan Zhongyan's son is more simple and hardworking than poor children.

For example, Fan Zhongyan's son never makes public: "How did my dad do it?"

Fan Zhongyan's family education is also very strict, and he has been educating his children to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, be charitable, and lead a totally clean life. For example, Fan Zhongyan once sent his second son Fan Chunren from Suzhou to Sichuan. On his way back, he met his friend Shi. Knowing that the Shi family was ruined and had no money to transport the coffin back to his hometown, he gave him all the wheat on board and let him leave his hometown.

Fan Chunren didn't mention it when he went home. When his father Fan Zhongyan asked him if he had met any friends in Suzhou, Fan Chunren said that his friend Shi had no money to send his relatives' coffins home and was trapped in Suzhou. Fan Zhongyan immediately asked anxiously, "Why not send all the wheat and give him the freight for transporting the coffin?" Fan Chunren immediately said that he had done so, and Fan Zhongyan immediately praised him.

It can be seen from this little incident that Fan Zhongyan set an example by educating children to be willing to do good deeds and cultivating children to have a kind heart that cares about others. This kind of education is also worth learning.