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Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹

statesman · Song China · 989–1052

A Song statesman who lost his father at two, studied on meals of thin porridge, and rose to chief minister.

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1046 · After his reforms failed and he was pushed out to the provinces

Not glad because of outward things, not sad because of my own lot.

不以物喜,不以己悲。

"Yueyang Tower"

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