Respect is powerful: respecting people, things and things subjectively can make them physically and mentally strong.

Seeking benevolence makes people happy: paying attention to kindness can make people convinced.

Study hard to make immortals admire: hard work and diligence can make immortals admire.

From Zeng Guofan's commandments

Qing Dynasty: Zeng Guofan

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Zeng Guofan's legacy

Qing Dynasty: Zeng Guofan

Yu Tong has been an official for more than 30 years, but his studies have been successful, and his virtue is not allowed. His eldest brother was injured again and he was ashamed. I want to say goodbye to you now, and I want to teach you four things.

I am cautious and independent. Self-study is not difficult to cultivate the mind; It is difficult to raise your heart, but you should also be cautious. You can be cautious, introspective and innocent, and you can geological ghosts and gods. No one is ashamed, then the heavenly king will be calm. This heart is always agile and broad-minded, which is the first way to strengthen yourself, to have fun and to keep fit.

Second, the Lord is strong. The interior is quiet and pure, and the exterior is neat and serious. When you respect it; When you go out, you will see the distinguished guests, and let the people bear the big sacrifice and respect the sky. Self-cultivation is to protect the people, the world is peaceful, and it is also effective to respect each other. Smart and wise, all from this. Zhuang Jing is strong every day, and Anse steals every day. If there is no one, big or small, we should respect them one by one and dare not neglect them. If you are strong, why do you doubt it?

Third, seeking benevolence makes people happy. Every mortal's life is shaped by the principle of heaven and earth and the qi of heaven and earth. I have the same roots as the people. If you know yourself but don't know what people love, then you have lost the way to the source of great books.

As for respecting officials and being generous, they have the responsibility to save the people from fire, water and hunger. Never forget the past, the teacher of the future has both the responsibility of perception and the responsibility of perception. Confucius taught people nothing more than seeking benevolence. The most important thing is not to establish people, but to learn from them. Who is not happy to return home when he has become a great event?

Fourth, learning to work is a god. What a person wears in a day is commensurate with what he does in a day, so others will do it, and ghosts and gods will allow him to think that he is independent.

If farmers weave girls all the year round and work hard to make a few feet of cloth, and rich families are happy all the year round and don't run businesses, but the food will be delicious and the clothes will be gorgeous, the world will be the most uneven, and ghosts and gods will not allow it. Can it last?

Ancient sages and sages are always trying to encourage themselves. For a plan, you must practice your skills, hone your bones and muscles, walk in difficulties and worry about dangers, so that you can increase your wisdom and knowledge. If you plan for the world, you will be starved and drowned, and you will not get a husband, which will lead to ancient jade. Dayu and Mozi are diligent for themselves and diligent for the people.

Diligence leads to longevity, and evasion leads to death. Diligence leads to the use of material, and evasion leads to the abandonment of hard work. Diligence leads to people's learning and admiration, while evasion does not help people, and ghosts don't care.

These four articles are the fruits of ten years in other parts of the world. If your brother remembers the trip and passes it on to his children and grandchildren, Yu Zeng's family will live forever and have talents.

introduce

Zeng Guofan, the official governor of Liangjiang, the governor of Zhili and the university student of Wuyingdian, was named as the first-class Yi Hou Yong, and posthumous title was called "Zheng Wen", later called "Ceng Wenzheng". He was one of the four famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty. At present, a popular saying is "Be a man with Zeng Guofan, be an official with Li Hongzhang, and do things with the Left".

Zeng Guofan pursued Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism all his life, but he did not blindly worship it. At the same time, he absorbed the essence of other branches of Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties. Zeng Guofan's precepts are his suicide note, which expounds the important ideological essence of his life and has become a family motto for generations.

Zeng Guofan interprets his life wisdom from four aspects. The first point is about "cautious independence". The article mentioned: "Cautious independence, introspection and repentance can help ghosts and gods. If no one is guilty, then the heavenly army will be calm. "

"Cautious independence" is a very important thought of Confucianism, which means that a person can self-discipline his behavior when he is alone, which is a realm. What a lofty realm a person can achieve "cautious independence". From the perspective of Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, this is the study of mind and nature, which needs to be cultivated. This is the spiritual realm of the awakened one. "Awakened, the mind is born; Practitioners, the heart is made by the law. "

Zeng Guofan's "cautious independence" in his life is because he has the ideological height of "awakening". This should also be a guiding ideology for us modern people to improve the quality of full names. As a classic thought of Confucianism, "cautious independence" has been vividly interpreted in Zeng Guofan's life, making Zeng Guofan immortal.

Zeng Guofan put forward "respecting the body and strengthening the body" in the second point of the Commandment, and "respecting the body" was also a moral cultivation method put forward by China Song Dynasty philosopher Cheng Yi. Respect, as a method of self-cultivation, was first seen in the Analects of Confucius by Luz: "Live respectfully, deacons respect" and the Book of Changes in classical Chinese: "Respect is straight inside and righteousness is outside".

"Respect" here also means caution. Therefore, Cheng Yi played his inner self-restraint kung fu. "Respect" here also refers to bringing people respect. People who are "respectful" are strict with others, and can leave a good impression without neglect. This is the significance of Zeng Guofan's ability to recruit talents and preserve his sanity.

Appreciation of Zeng Guofan's admonition

Zeng Guofan wrote a very famous exposition in his later years. Later generations often compare Zeng Guofan's Master Book with Zhuge Liang's Master Book, which shows its great influence. It is bound to be the constraint and restriction on one's children and family after feeling, which has become a famous saying of managing the family.