Fan Zhongyan was two years old and lonely, and his mother was poor and helpless, which was suitable for Changshan Zhu. As he is a dragon, he knows his family, feels sad, resigns from his mother, and goes to Du Nan to enter the school. Study hard day and night and sleep without taking off your clothes for five years. Or the night is dull and lazy, and you need to cover your face with water. Often porridge is not full, and it begins to be eaten at the end of the day. So I am interested in the world because of the purpose of the Six Classics of Great Harmony. I often say to myself: worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world.

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Fan Zhongyan lost his father when he was two years old. Mother is poor and has no one to rely on. She remarried to Zhujiajian Island's home in Changshan. (Fan Zhongyan) When he grew up, he knew his life experience, said goodbye to his mother with tears, and left his hometown to study at Du Nan Academy in Yingtianfu. He studies hard during the day and studies late at night. In five years, I never took off my clothes and went to bed. Sometimes I feel sleepy at night and often pour water on my face. (Fan Zhongyan) I often study hard during the day and eat nothing until the sun sets. In this way, he understood the gist of the Six Classics, and later made an ambition to benefit the world. He often tells himself, "Worry about the world first, and enjoy it later."

2. Chen Fan is willing to sweep the world.

In the fifteenth year of Francisco, I tasted a room in my spare time, when Yu Ting was five years old. Father and friend Qin Xue came from the same county to wait for him and said, "Why don't you clean up for the guests?" Fan said: "The way of a gentleman is to clean the world and settle down." It is strange to know that he has clear world ambitions.

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When Fan Chen was fifteen years old, he once lived alone in a place where the yard and house were in a mess. Qin Xue, his father's friend in the same city, came to visit him and said to him, "Young man, why don't you clean the room to welcome the guests?" Chen Fan said: "A gentleman takes it as his duty to sweep away the evils in the world. You can't care about a room. " Qin Xue thinks that he has the ambition to clarify the world and is different from others.

Ban Chao joined the army.

Ban Chao was born in Ping Ling, and Xu Lingbiao is the youngest son. Be ambitious and don't rest on your laurels. However, I am very filial, always on duty at home, and I am not ashamed of my work. Have a mouth to argue, but dabble in book biography. Yongping five years. My brother Gu was called the school book lang, and Chao went to Luoyang with his mother. Poor family, often as a civil servant to support. After studying hard for a long time, he dropped out of school and sighed, "A gentleman has no ambition. He should still win the championship in Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian in foreign countries. Can he stay in the fence for a long time? " Laugh at it in two ways. Chao said, "I know the ambition of a strong man!"

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Ban Chao is ambitious and doesn't care about trifles. But filial piety and diligence at home often lead a hard life, and labor is not shameful. He is eloquent and has read a lot of historical classics. In 62 AD (the fifth year of Yongping), my brother Ban Gu was recruited as a school bookboy, and Ban Chao and his mother also took their classmates to Luoyang. Because his family was poor, Ban Chaochang copied books for the government to earn money to support his family. He copied for a long time and worked hard. On one occasion, he stopped his work and threw a pen and sighed: "If a gentleman has no better ambition, he should make great achievements in a foreign land like Fu Jiezi in Zhao Di's time and Zhang Qian in Liang Wudi's time, so as to get a seal. How can he be busy between pens and inkstones for a long time? " People around him laughed at him. Ban Chao said: "How can a teenager understand the ambition of a strong man!"

4. Zong Yi braved the wind and waves.

Zong Xi's words are dry, and Nanyang Nie foreigners are also. Soldiers, uncles and nobles are not officials. When he was young, Bing asked him about his ambition. Yan said, "I am willing to ride the wind and waves." The soldier said, "If you are not rich, you will break our door." Brother Bi married a wife. He was robbed at night. At the age of fourteen, he stood up and refused the thief. More than a dozen people were allowed to enter the house. At that time, there was nothing in the world, and scholars took literature and art as their profession. They were all eager to learn, but they were arrogant and martial, so they were not called rural songs.

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Zong Yi is a native of Nieyang, Nanyang, with a dry personality. His uncle Zong Bing is very learned, but he refuses to be an official. When I was a child, I asked him what his ambition was when he grew up. He replied: "I hope to drive strong winds to disperse the huge waves that stretch across Wan Li." (Zong Bing said: "Even if you can't be rich or expensive, you will definitely honor your ancestors." ) Once Zongbi's brother got married and was robbed by robbers on their wedding night. At that time, Zongxi was only 14 years old, but he stepped forward and fought with the robbers, beating a dozen robbers to pieces and never getting into the main house. At that time, the world was peaceful, and people who were a little famous thought that reading and becoming famous was the right business. Because of Zong Bing's profound knowledge, everyone likes to read Confucian classics with him. Because of Zong Yi's willfulness and love for martial arts, he was not praised by his fellow villagers.

5. The painter Zhao Guang is indomitable.

Zhao Guang is from Hefei. When Li Ben Bo sketched the family, every servant was around. I have been good at drawing for a long time. You Gong drew a horse. A few can confuse right and wrong. When a thief is caught in an inflammation, he smells his good paintings, so that the daughter captured by the paintings can't draw, threatening with a white blade, not sending her right thumb away, but fitting her left hand for life. Random, but draw Guanyin tuas. A few years later, he died. Today, the scholar-officials collected Bo Shi Guanyin, which has a wide variety of pens.

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Hefei people were originally Li Shuxiang's family. Li is by his side as his painter. After a long time, he began to be good at painting, especially horses, almost like Li. Jian Yan years, fell into the hands of the nomads from the army. Jinbing heard that he was good at drawing, so he asked him to draw captured women. Zhao Guang resolutely refused to paint, nomads from the knife threat, failed, and cut off his right thumb. Zhao Guang actually draws with his left hand. After the situation calmed down, Zhao Guang only painted Guanyin tuas. A few years later, he died, and most of Li's Guanyin paintings were written.