Luchou residents old and new heard how Fan Zhong-yan of the Song dynasty was too poor to afford schooling as a child, but after passing the imperial exams and attaining high office, provided a free school for the benefit of his locality, and this is still commemorated today by the name of Yixue Lane in Suzhou.
蘆洲地區的新舊居民可知道，宋朝的范仲淹小時候讀不起書，成功以後他辦義學，造福鄉里，蘇州至今還有一條紀念他的巷子，叫做義學巷。