This is an idea put forward by Mencius (372?-289BC?), who held that enjoying music alone was not as rewarding as enjoying it with others. His argument for sharing stemmed from his philosophy that calls for caring about and being considerate towards ordinary people as well as being people-centered and benevolent in governing. This idea from Mencius was adopted by subsequent scholar-officials, and Qian Gongfu (1021-1072) of the Northern Song Dynasty was one of them. Qian built on the South Lake a pavilion called Zhongle Pavilion or Pavilion of Joy Sharing, when he was the magistrate of Mingzhou Prefecture (now Ningbo, Zhejiang Province). He also wrote poems about the pavilion lauding the idea of sharing joy. In his “Memorial to Yueyang Tower,”Fan Zhongyan (989-1052) expressed his view that as an official one should anticipate the worries of the people and be the first to care, and be the last to enjoy, only after seeing that others were all happy. Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072) also voiced a similar sentiment of joy sharing in his “The Old Drunkard Pavilion.”Since then, sharing joy has been a theme in classical Chinese literary creation and also a manifestation of the traditional Chinese spirit of benevolence.