What are the details about Zeng Guofan's Xiang characters?

Zeng Guofan, who knows something about historical figures, should all know this name. Indeed, there are too many "names" on Zeng Guofan, such as politicians, military strategists and neo-Confucianism. He was a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty to save the nation and survive, and posthumous title "Zheng Wen" was behind him. Zeng Guofan's life, there are too many remarkable places, and there are countless excellent qualities worth learning by future generations. His letters from home, diaries and other words have not only become important historical materials, but also been used as benchmarks by future generations.

There are so many touching things in Zeng's life that I can only choose one of them to encourage readers and friends. Let's learn Zeng Guofan's spirit of going upstream.

The road to success is always full of thorns, especially for people with ordinary backgrounds, which is why so few people in the world can achieve "success". However, Zeng Guofan used his personal deeds to interpret all kinds of qualities that ordinary people need for success, and among many noble qualities, perseverance and going upstream are more important.

Figure 1 Zeng Guofan (18 1 1 year-1872)

Zeng Guofan said in his letters from home and various self-reports that his talent was very general. This is not all modesty, Zeng Guofan's life experience and style of dealing with people. Many examples can show that his old man's house is really not a very quick-thinking person. For example, the scholar, in the first stage of the imperial examination, took seven exams before and after. His father was with him for the first six times. His father didn't accompany the exam, but the father and son went to the same examination room. Zeng Guofan failed in the sixth exam of the top scholar, but his father Zeng Lao Tongsheng was finally reborn as the top scholar in "high school".

For Zeng Guofan, it is a comfort that one of his father and son finally got in, but what makes him even more frustrated is that his test paper has become a negative textbook and has been published. The main problem is that the arts and sciences are relatively simple and can be used as a reference for candidates to avoid in the future. This made Zeng Guofan's self-esteem hit hard, but Zeng Guofan's more frustrated and brave energy played a role at this moment.

Zeng Guofan knew that the only way out for revenge was success. This time, Zeng Guofan actively summed up the shortcomings of previous learning methods on the basis of hard work. He found that most of his previous studies were rote learning, which was extremely inefficient, got twice the result with half the effort and could not grasp the essence. Therefore, Zeng Guofan actively improved his learning methods. Zeng Guofan lived up to expectations and finally got the diploma of "Scholar" in the seventh scholar exam in his life. The familiar Zeng Guofan seems unacceptable. In the second year's juren exam, he won again! Friends who have seen Jin Fan's move know that the difficulty coefficient of the move is very large, and Zeng Guofan actually came to a "Lian Jie". Perhaps this is the so-called "sincere, stone is open"

Figure 2 Schematic diagram of imperial examination system

The above is an example of Zeng Guofan's imperial examination. He finally resisted all kinds of pressures and avenged himself with a beautiful "Lian Jie". Therefore, human potential is often produced under pressure. The following example can better illustrate this fact.

As we all know, Zeng Guofan's greatest achievement in his life was the establishment of the Xiang Army, which helped the Qing government annihilate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and made the Qing Dynasty last for more than half a century. However, you may not know how difficult it was when Zeng Guofan founded the Xiang army.

In the early days of Emperor Xianfeng's rule, the Qing Dynasty was a situation of internal troubles and foreign invasion. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement that broke out in the first year of Xianfeng was originally a civil riot organized by some people in Guangxi who were bewitched by "cults". Unexpectedly, it has become a prairie fire, and the "cult" organization is growing stronger and stronger, and it is out of control. In the second year of Xianfeng, the Taiping Army swept through Guangxi, attacked the two lakes, and began to turn eastward, meaning to attack the south of the Yangtze River. Because the fighting capacity of green camp in the national regular army was so low that people could land on their chin, based on the objective fact that he could not effectively resist the Taiping Army, Emperor Xianfeng decided to follow his grandfather Jiaqing and carry out local group training to save the decline. At this time, Zeng Guofan was at home because his mother died. Zeng Guofan was nominated by Emperor Xianfeng to organize local Yong ying as a registered assistant minister, and cooperated with local troops to destroy Taiping Army. Of course, there are more than 30 officials named by the emperor at the same time.

Fig. 3 Aisingiorro ritual (183 1 year-1861year), namely Xianfeng emperor.

At first, Zeng Guofan was not "cold" about Emperor Xianfeng's will, because Zeng Guofan was very disappointed with Emperor Xianfeng. Originally, there was quite a brand-new wind at the beginning of Emperor Xianfeng's palace. Zeng Guofan had high hopes for the young emperor and thought that the new emperor could change course and get depressed. I didn't expect Emperor Xianfeng to talk more and do less after three minutes of blood. Zeng Guofan has the meaning of no longer "serving", so Zeng Guofan is not going to go out after receiving the imperial edict.