Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo and Zhang Zhidong are called "four famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty". This official is a college student in Wuyingdian, the governor of Liangjiang. During the Tongzhi period, he was awarded the first-class righteous Hou Yong and was replaced by hereditary.
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In ancient Chinese, the princes emphasized the sonorous voice, and they did everything they could, with endless connotations; Ancient prose is profound and magnificent, which can convey the spirit of Han Fu, so it has a magnificent artistic conception and can get rid of the disadvantages of Tongcheng School, which is called by later generations. The Zeng family had a patriarchal clan system in Tongcheng, but it changed and developed later. As a model of the text, he compiled a hundred kinds of miscellaneous notes on classics and history, which is not controlled by Tongcheng and is called Xiangxiang School in the world.
Yan Fu, Lin Shu, Tan Sitong and Liang Qichao were all influenced by his writing style in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. His works were included in The Complete Works of Zeng Zheng Wengong.
Before his death, he published a far-reaching letter from Zeng Guofan, and also wrote modern bestsellers such as Tingjing and Bingjian.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Zeng Guofan