After reading Zeng Guofan's letters, 1 Why does Zeng Guofan like writing letters so much? It was not until he carefully read the letter from home that he got a clear answer to this question. Most likely, he reflected on himself in the process of writing letters to his family, always telling his younger brothers and sisters, his wife and children, while paying New Year greetings to his parents. Words are full of well-meaning criticism and self-reflection, and I hope I can take responsibility, make friends with restless heroes in the world, and contribute my strength to the crumbling Qing Dynasty. Standing on the side of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is to overthrow corruption, and standing on the side of Zeng Guofan is to pacify the war. However, from a historical point of view, Mr. Zeng still failed to jump out of the feudal era, thinking that this was an ordinary rebellion, but he did not know that there was a mixture of internal and external factors, but this did not hinder his heart of deficit.
In the letters from home, Mr. Zeng promoted the four books and the five classics, especially the four books. The most frequently mentioned are The University and The Analects of Confucius. The words in Mencius are occasionally mentioned, and the most far-reaching influence is the university. Three classes and eight eyes go deep into the bone marrow and are within reach. This book roughly classifies the contents of family letters from seven aspects: self-cultivation, persuasion, managing the family, governing the country, dealing with the world and being an official.
The characteristics of letters from home are profound, and the description of details is far better than the empty slogan of theory:
In terms of self-cultivation, it lists the self-cultivation of everyone in the past dynasties, and it is inevitable to be cautious and independent;
In persuasion, we strongly suggest that we should strive to strengthen ourselves, overcome difficulties and not give up in adversity;
In family management, telling family members that harmony is the highest criterion, which is the highest criterion. Everything is prosperous at home. Filial piety to parents and grandparents, respect to wife, kindness to children, strict father, and insufficient criticism of things encouraged by brothers.
Governing the country is based on the sky and indomitable spirit, which highlights the responsibility that state ministers should share. In times of crisis, a person's influence is enough to defend the national territory;
In life, wit is not the most important thing, edges and corners are the most important thing, and heart is the center. If you conform to your heart, you will deal with people in various ways. Your luck, meanness, blame and ferocity have their own conclusions.
To be an official, we must take the world as our responsibility, criticize the shortcomings of the times, and distinguish between being honest and clean, so as to be worthy of the original intention of being an official. However, being an official is just a tool, not obsessed with power and wealth.
Keep healthy, get up eight hours early, have no distractions, and don't give priority to medical stone. Instead, use food, sleep and affection to cultivate fertility, be less angry and sad, and have a dull and flowing mood.
The most important thing for me to return to work and life every day is to muddle along, and I can't remember the original intention, purpose, way, result and way of change. The final question is, what do you want to be in life? In a person's spiritual world, you can travel, become Peng Kun, and go against the wind without physical constraints, but in the end you can't, and you lack the medicine to turn your delusion into reality. Prudence and independence, as the highest requirement of self-management, may be the closest substitute for this medicine. Mr. Zeng devoted his life to self-salvation. Caution and independence can make people accomplish many things. Some people can live for generations, and their thoughts and spirit can last for thousands of years, turning ideas into achievements and becoming milestones.
A leaf is a world, and a flower is a spring and autumn. When the dream will wake up, you will know that you are still young.
The letter from home is a record of Mr. Zeng's return to various stages and turning his thoughts into reality. He has been cautious about everything all his life. He has a big mind, a small way out and a rich heart. Why should he care what the world thinks? There should be no moment, and there should be no distance.
Will you write when you are old? Not for others, but for my own epitaph.
Thoughts on Zeng Guofan's letters 2 I wanted to read Zeng Guofan's letters a long time ago, but I always ran aground because of something. This time, I finally settled down to study party member.
Zeng Guofan had different reputations before his death. He is the "first minister of ZTE", but he is also known as the "traitor". He founded Anqing Inner Ordnance Institute, the earliest westernization military enterprise in China, and was an important representative of the Westernization School. However, he also killed people and ceded territory in the "Tianjin Religion Plan", which set a precedent for "enforcing the law on the spot" and took the blame. But he also achieved "learning from Zeng Guofan politically and Hu Xueyan commercially." The reputation of ... the evaluation of historical figures can't be divorced from the historical conditions at that time, especially for Zeng Guofan, a man with high knowledge, and you must never make a comment.
"Letters from Zeng Guofan" covers many fields such as self-cultivation, family planning, scholarship, army management, politics, life, employing people, making friends, managing finances, keeping in good health and so on, which is a reflection of his main thoughts of politics, family management, scholarship and army management all his life. This book is divided into self-cultivation, persuasion, housekeeping, financial management, making friends, governing politics and employing people. Through Zeng Guofan's letters to his family, we can understand his unique views on things and his way of dealing with family, personnel, military and state affairs. Zeng Guofan summed up his pride and loss in many letters and used his experience to educate his brothers, especially Zeng Guofan's character education for his children. Until today, it is still an excellent example for modern parents to educate their children, build a good family and teach.
Reading Zeng Guofan's Letter is not difficult to associate with the current education. Over the years of reform and opening up, China's economic and social development has made great achievements, but there are also some problems that cannot be avoided and whitewashed. We have a fine tradition of attaching importance to education. Nowadays, society and families also spend a lot of energy and money on children's education, and it has become a common social phenomenon that children are overwhelmed by learning. However, the results of education are not satisfactory, such as lack of faith, extreme ego, moral decay, impetuousness and emptiness. And the education problem is not optimistic.
As a pillar of the country, Zeng Guofan is the best son, the best brother and the most kind father in people's eyes. In more than 330 letters of Zeng Guofan, he emphasized the ideal of life and moral cultivation. He said: "Everyone wants his descendants to be big officials, and I don't want to be big officials, but I want to be a gentleman who understands reading." This also reflects the problem of our education, which seems to attach too much importance to "talent" and ignore the education of "morality". Our moral education mostly stays at the level of empty talk and slogans.
The education of disciples in Zeng Guofan's letters starts with life behavior and focuses on moral cultivation. However, the current education is to let children learn skills blindly, resulting in many children not knowing that "filial piety" is the basis of "benevolence" and how to love their parents. How can we love others and our motherland?
If you lose your sense of responsibility for your family, what social responsibility will you bear? How can we "keep the family in order" without "cultivating self-cultivation", let alone "level the world"? These are all worthy of our deep thinking.
Thoughts on Zeng Guofan's letters from home 3 Zeng Guofan was a great scholar in the late Qing Dynasty and was admired by many celebrities in modern times, so he wanted to try Zeng Guofan's books to increase his income. "Letters from Zeng Guofan" contains the classic letters of Zeng Guofan's official career, and there are many places worth learning. Here, I also talk about my own experience.
People admired by China literati are called sages, which is also the goal pursued by sages. For this goal, generation after generation has been working hard, but only a handful of people have become sages, which shows that it is difficult to achieve results. Zeng Guofan is one of them. From his letters, we can see his spirit of constant pursuit. Sages, first of all, are saints, and saints are in an almost perfect state. Zeng Guofan is constantly pursuing this state, constantly improving his moral character, saving himself day by day, constantly striving for perfection, blaming himself and being complacent. In constant introspection, Zeng Guofan is a model and model for scholars.
Secondly, saints, sages, sages, have profound knowledge and superior ability. While being strict with himself, Zeng Guofan also did his best to be an official. He kept dealing with the Qing government, foreigners and Taiping rebels, and he was defeated and fought repeatedly, and the more frustrated he became, the more brave he became. He promoted Zuo, Li Hongzhang and other dignitaries in the late Qing Dynasty, promoted the development of the Westernization Movement, made outstanding contributions to the modernization of China, and was a saint.
After reading Zeng Guofan's letters, I was lucky enough to read Zeng Guofan's letters this semester, and I was deeply touched by many places. In the letter from home, people feel that he is a father who is very strict with his children's study and education. Many of his letters from home require his sons to send him words, poems and other works that they practice daily, and then he will give guidance according to their learning situation. He pointed out that "reading should be specialized and learning Chinese characters should be regular". He is also a loving father. Once, my son was ill for a long time. He asked him carefully if he had taken any medicine, what medicine he had taken and so on. It has also been suggested that the key to good health is to strengthen exercise at ordinary times instead of taking medicine blindly. "Take a thousand steps after meals" is a good fitness method.
As the pillar of the country, Zeng Guofan is regarded as the best son, the best brother and the kindest father. His descendants are all over the world, and they are all masters. Zeng Guofan's mentor may have given the answer. In more than 330 letters of Zeng Guofan, he emphasized the ideal of life and moral cultivation. He said: "Everyone wants his descendants to be big officials, and I don't want to be big officials, but I want to be a gentleman who understands reading." Compared with Zeng's family education, it is not difficult to find that our educational goals have deviated. We attach too much importance to the education of "talent" and neglect the education of "morality". What is Zeng Guofan's "gentleman"? Sima Guang has made a conclusion in "Learning from each other": "Those who are talented and virtuous are called saints, those who are talented and virtuous are called fools, those who are talented and virtuous are called gentlemen, and those who win virtue are called villains". Fools are not a social problem, but small talents are a big social problem. "Since ancient times, there have been so many traitors of the country and the black sheep of the family that there are so many subversives!" . It is thought-provoking and worthy of our deep reflection.
Our primary school students' clothes are all stretched and their mouths are full of food. Their "burden" mainly comes from learning mathematics, writing, English and various specialties. Compared with Zeng's family education, our moral education mostly stays at the level of empty talk and slogans. Primary school education should be life education, educating children to understand the relationship between people, parents and children, brothers and younger brothers, and understanding the relationship between people can make people do well. Let children know their identity, what obligations they should do and what manners they should do. This is education. Disciples' Rules in the old days did a good job in regulating children's behavior and cultivating their self-cultivation and understanding. The education of disciples in Zeng Guofan's letters also starts with life behavior and focuses on moral cultivation. But our education today ignores these. Someone joked that we have a "very 6+ 1" relationship with children, and six adults revolve around 1 child. No matter how poor you are, you have to have money, which makes many children unable to take care of themselves, unaware of the hardships of life, pursuing pleasure and keeping up with vanity. Many children are also accustomed to their central position, everyone is for me, and I am also for me, extremely selfish. Such children don't understand and don't love their parents. Filial piety is the foundation of benevolence. If they don't know how to love their parents, how can they love others and their motherland? If you lose your sense of responsibility for your family, what social responsibility will you bear? Without "self-cultivation", how can we "keep our family together", let alone "level the world".
I suggest that all our educators should read Zeng Guofan's letters. These letters contain rich educational ideas, which are worth learning from.
After reading Zeng Guofan's letters for five years, I roughly turned over a few pages of Zeng Guofan's letters and threw them back into the bookcase because I didn't understand the taste. The reason for repeating reading is very accidental. Once I went to Zeng Guofan's former residence and listened to a tour guide explaining Ceng Gong's life. I am both curious and yearning: Ceng Gong was born in an ordinary farming and reading family. In just ten years, he became a bachelor of cabinet, assistant minister of rites and a second-class official. He must have something extraordinary, so he picked up a book and read it carefully.
"A Letter from Zeng Guofan" has a wide range of contents, including self-cultivation, dealing with people, making friends and knowing people, being a parent, managing the army and politics, etc. From grandparents to fathers, from brothers to children. In dealing with people and things, Zeng Guofan acted with "sincerity" and "constancy" all his life. He advocates perseverance and hard work, not only when he is proud, but also when he is frustrated. In parenting, he advocates thrift, hard work, good neighborliness and understanding. He often tells children that as long as they are knowledgeable, they are not afraid of not having food. He also said that if the family is too rich, there will be trouble, and he advocated that the property should not be left to children and grandchildren. It's no use for children and grandchildren to stay. Children and grandchildren can't eat if they want to be strong. This is what he calls the principle of surplus and deficiency. In the aspect of managing the army and employing people, it advocates managing the army with courtesy. In order to make the officers and men strictly observe discipline and care for the people, he even personally wrote love folk songs to persuade them. In terms of strategy and tactics, he believes that war is a matter of life and death, and should "seek stability first, then change." In employing people, the principles of "benevolence, filial piety, honesty and blood" are emphasized, and the selection criteria are "respecting truth and floating, making great efforts to govern". Zeng Guofan shogunate is a talent training base, and Li Hongzhang and Zuo are all around it.
Deeply reading Zeng Guofan's letters will inevitably be infected by the deep affection in the book. Zeng Guofan lived up to the reputation of "the highest generation of moral articles". Letters from home, long or short, contain deep thoughts, respect, care and concern for grandparents, parents, brothers, wives and children, relatives and friends. In the pursuit of fame and fortune in modern society, such a deep affection is particularly valuable.
How long has it been since I settled down to write a letter? How long has it been since you talked to your parents? How long has it been since I got together with my brothers and sisters? Prosperous floating world, prosperity is for the benefit. After reading Zeng Guofan's letter, I can learn many valuable qualities from Ceng Gong, and the most valuable thing is filial piety. Call parents, buy them a dress, accompany them to travel ... and try to satisfy their parents materially and emotionally. Parents have nothing to worry about, but they don't need too much. If we can love them as much as they love us, that's enough.
Reflections on Zeng Guofan's Letters 6 After reading Zeng Guofan, I still feel unfinished. I can't bear to go to the back and don't want to finish watching him. Zeng Guofan written by Tang is a book worth reading. Next, I will briefly summarize this book and think about myself.
Zeng Guofan was strict with himself all his life, observing talents and employing people, and paying attention to self-cultivation. When he defeated the Taiping Army, many people advised him to oppose the killing caused by the continuous war that he first thought of, end the war and return peace to the people. However, as the commander-in-chief of the Xiang army and wandering in the officialdom, he was ruthless and did not hesitate to kill innocent people in order to achieve a certain goal.
However, we still understand this generation of great men, because times make heroes, not heroes. We should think from the background and environment at that time. After all, Zeng Guofan is also a mortal. The so-called "kindness does not lead troops, feelings do not stand, righteousness does not manage money, and goodness does not serve." Being the commander-in-chief of Xiang Jun is not enough, nor hypocritical, nor smart enough to stand on the corrupt officialdom. But he didn't stop correcting his behavior, which is worth learning.
At present, I want to learn, reflect, constantly think about myself, think about the world, take history as a mirror, take copper as a mirror, have self-knowledge and ability, know my own shortcomings and make changes, constantly improve myself and make myself better.