In the "Eight Classrooms", he also carved a famous family motto "eight treasures rice". This eight-treasure rice is not the fragrant rice that we southerners like to eat, but the eight-character motto of family management, that is, book, vegetable, fish, pig, morning, sweep, test and treasure.

Books are about studying hard. Vegetables are just growing vegetables. Fish is to raise fish. Hunan is a water town with many fish ponds. A pig is a pig at home. Get up early in the morning, don't sleep late. Sweeping is sweeping the floor, sweeping the house, how can you sweep the world without sweeping the house? Therefore, the children of the Zeng family, no matter how expensive you are, should be cleaned up by themselves. The exam is to worship the ancestors with respect. Cherish is to live in harmony not only with family members, but also with neighbors, ethnic groups and neighbors. Love others is priceless.

These eight words, Zeng Guofan asked every child in the Zeng family to practice and persevere. This practice and this persistence, Zeng Guofan believes, is a "diligent" word. Zeng Guofan asked this, so, how did the Zeng family's children do?