What do Zeng Guofan's Six Commandments mean?

The meaning of Zeng Guofan's six precepts:

1. Don't do lasting things, and don't go to places where there are many people competing.

Don't do things that have always been profitable, and don't go where everyone wants to go. It may be harmful for everyone to join Cheng Wei.

The first half of the sentence says that there is nothing once and for all in the world, and it is impossible to make long-term profits. If there is such a thing that can always make a profit, it can only be said to be a superficial phenomenon or a scam. Be sure to keep a clear head at this time.

The second half is about safety. Don't go to places where people quarrel and fight, which is easy to cause trouble or disaster.

2. Don't abandon great beauty with small evils, and don't forget great kindness with small grievances.

Don't ignore the advantages of others because of their small shortcomings, and don't ignore the great kindness of others because of their small grievances. People make mistakes as long as they do things. These two sentences tell us that we should not completely deny and forget the kindness of others because of a little mistake, a little moral flaw and a little resentment.

3. It is said that people's shortcomings are to protect their own shortcomings, and boasting their own advantages is to avoid the length of others.

People who often talk about other people's shortcomings and praise their own advantages can be said to be "careless and narrow-minded." Often talking about other people's shortcomings and boasting about their own advantages is not only a manifestation of low emotional intelligence, but also inevitably brings resentment to themselves and sows the seeds of disaster.

The meaning of Zeng Guofan's sentence brilliantly outlines the spiritual portrait of such a person. People who often say other people's shortcomings are actually hiding their own shortcomings; People who often brag about their own advantages are actually jealous or trying to cover up the advantages of others.

4, the benefits can be * * * but not immune, and the plan can be less or less.

Benefits are often what everyone craves. If anyone monopolizes the interests and doesn't share them with everyone, it will definitely arouse resentment and even become the target of public criticism. Therefore, in the face of interests, we must weigh the choices. When planning things, you must plan things with a few independent people, not with everyone else.

5. Mediocrity in ancient and modern times was defeated by a lazy word, and talents in ancient and modern times were defeated by a proud word.

Ordinary people are ordinary people, ordinary people. For the average person, no talent, only hard work can achieve career, so the word "lazy" is the most taboo. And those talented people, although they can take shortcuts with their talents and succeed more easily, are also easy to be complacent, unwilling to learn from others and easy to fail.

Zeng Guofan is a good example of hard work. He is not smart, but he can achieve great things in college with "diligence", which can be said to be an example for ordinary people.

6, where to do great things, knowledge is the main, supplemented by talent; If you achieve great things, people will live half a life, and God will live half a life.

Anyone who does great things needs to have profound experience and knowledge first, and also needs the assistance of talents; Anyone who wants to achieve great things, half depends on people's planning, and the other half depends on God's will, and opportunities will not come. Man proposes, God disposes.

Zeng Guofan clearly told us that to do great things, "knowledge" is the main thing, and talent and ability are only auxiliary. Therefore, it is often difficult for arrogant people to achieve great things. Of course, "knowledge" here not only refers to knowledge, but also includes experience and knowledge.

Zeng Guofan's influence:

Zeng Guofan was the first person who really practiced actively in the history of China. Under his guidance, he built the first ship in China, which started the modern manufacturing industry. The establishment of the first ordnance school initiated the modern higher education in China. The first translation and printing of western books not only laid the scientific and technological foundation of modern China, but also greatly broadened the horizons of China people.

We also arranged the first batch of students studying in the United States, and trained a large number of outstanding talents for the country, including the first Prime Minister of the Republic of China, Tang, China's "father of railways" Zhan Tianyou, Foreign Minister Liang Dunyan in the late Qing Dynasty, and the first president of Tsinghua.