Fan Zhongyan was a prominent politician and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, and his humanistic martial arts and martial arts were both virtuous and worldly known as "Fan Wen Zhenggong" A generation of great literary heroes said that Fan Zhongyan "became a famous person, a famous sage, a happy person, and a worry before people" a generation of great Confucian Zhu Xi commented on Fan Zhongyan as "a first-class figure between heaven and earth"
Fan Zhongyan's earliest name was actually Zhu Yue, what is the matter? Because Fan Zhongyan's father died of illness when he was two years old, his mother was a concubine who could not gain a foothold in the Fan family, so he had to take the child to remarry a merchant surnamed Zhu Yue, Fan Zhongyan saw that the brothers used money to be very extravagant and opened his mouth to dissuade, who knew that the brothers replied with a sentence "I use the Money of the Zhu family and what do you do with you" Zhu Yue returned home and asked his mother to know his surname Fan, so Fan Zhongyan decided to leave the Zhu family to survive on his own ability, Fan Zhongyan was later admitted to the Taixue life is still bitter, every day to cook a pot of porridge cold into four pieces in the morning and two pieces in the morning and evening, This is the source of the famous porridge in history, friends see that he is poor, put delicious things in his house, and then go to see when things are intact as the old friend did not understand why Fan Zhongyan replied, if I eat these delicious and then eat coarse tea and light rice, I can't eat it, the so-called "from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrifty"
Twenty-nine-year-old Fan Zhongyan took the meritorious name and asked the Zhu family to restore their original Fan surname, because Fan Zhongyun was the second in the Fan family, so he took the word Fan Zhongyan, no one can easily succeed, and the efforts made by every successful person are invisible to ordinary people.