1. Zeng Guofan

The historical novel Zeng Guofan written by Tang Haoming is popular and readable, which artistically reproduces Zeng Guofan's ordinary and brilliant life. This book not only writes about Zeng Guofan's literary skills, but also his attitude towards people and life. Write about his predicament and success as well as his favor and fall from grace. Zeng Guofan's winning art of war, the policy of managing the army and administration, his unique outlook on life and philosophy of life, his cultural accomplishment and personality taste are all shown in his works.

2. The Ice Guide written by Zeng Guofan

The Ice Guide is a wonderful book handed down from ancient times by Zeng Guofan, which is the key to Zeng Guofan's meticulous observation and insight into people's hearts. Because of its strong practicality, enlightenment and reference, it has been valued and loved by people from all walks of life. This book is actually a personal experience and research report on physiognomy. ?

3. "Ting Jing" Zeng Guofan's

"Ting Jing" is about how to do things and be a man, unlike those inspirational books that are clear now. The stories and truths given in the book need to be thought and understood by yourself. ?

Zeng Guofan died because he couldn't finish his Ting Jing. Part of the contents and chapters of the book are scattered in Zeng Guofan's Miscellaneous Works and the writings of his disciples and aides. Ting Jing, now in readers' hands, has been compiled and sorted out by Wu Qiaozi, a senior researcher, from more than 12 kinds of ancient books and records, such as Classic History and Miscellaneous Notes, Xiangxiang Zeng's Literature, Zeng Guofan's Chronicle, Zeng Guofan's Complete Works, and Zeng Guofan's entourage and disciples' anthologies and notes.

the book is divided into eighteen volumes according to the "eighteen methods of sutra" dictated by Li Hongzhang, and each volume is divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower. Each article takes classics as the key link and events as the latitude, including four parts: scripture, annotation and translation of scripture, event code and comment. Event code is an interpretation of scripture from the perspective of events, and most of them are Zeng Guofan's actions; Comments also start from the scriptures, summarizing, summarizing and evaluating similar figures and events in the scriptures and in history.

4. Zeng Guofan's Letter

Zeng Guofan's Letter is a collection of letters that Zeng Guofan wrote to his family during his heyday as an official. From it, we can see the secret of Zeng Guofan's high achievement without shaking the Lord. ?

The Letter from Zeng Guofan is extensive in content, which includes both the way of governing the army and the way of life. Since it was published in early 1879, it has been widely circulated and is an important material for studying Zeng Guofan and the history of this period. The writing of Zeng's family letters is calm, free in form, random in thought, free in writing, and contains true knowledge and good advice in plain household matters.

Zeng Guofan studied hard all his life, praised Confucianism, and emphasized pragmatism, becoming another "Confucian master" after Confucius, Mencius and Zhu Xi. He innovated the literary theory of Tongcheng School, and his poems and essays presided over the literary circles of Daoguang, Xianfeng and Tongzhi Dynasties, which can be described as the highest generation of moral articles.

5. Tang Haoming's Comments on Zeng Guofan's Letters [Qing] Zeng Guofan's original works, Tang Haoming's comments

Tang Haoming's Comments on Zeng Guofan's Letters introduced Zeng Guofan's family background, academic support and personal connections. Every member of Zeng's extended family and small family, as well as relatives and friends who have close contacts with Zeng's family, will be introduced clearly in Comments.

It is the most strenuous part for the author of Comments to examine Zeng's thoughts from the perspective of China's traditional culture, and to analyze what aspects of Zeng's thoughts still have enlightening value and reference value for modern people. For example, the author will carefully analyze Zeng's thoughts about seeking for lack, cherishing happiness, leaving no money for future generations and so on.

exploring the inner world of Zeng's family and publishing the author's understanding of reading history are the biggest features of Comment. For example, what is the first driving force for Zeng to make Xiang army bigger and stronger? Another example is that the bigger the Zeng official is, the heavier his power is, the more fearful he is and the more cautious he is in his actions. Why is he like this? When commenting on Zeng's funeral for his mother, the author put forward the view that "filial piety balances" three obedience and four virtues "; When commenting on Zeng's godson, he pointed out that intelligence is not an important beauty of human beings and so on.

6. "Zeng Wen Zheng Gong Jia Yan Chao" [Qing] Zeng Guofan, Liang Qichao?

Zeng Guofan, as "Li De's meritorious deeds are immortal, being a teacher is a perfect person", has been a model for young people in China to learn from since modern times. Mr. Liang Qichao admired Zeng Wenzheng all his life, and his legacy was even more "repeated three times a day". There were so many collected works of Zeng Wenzheng that they were not suitable for ordinary people to read. Mr. Liang Qichao extracted what he thought was the essence, which was very convenient to read, and the translation of vernacular Chinese was quite good. This book is suitable for frequent reading. ?

7. "Hundreds of Miscellaneous Notes on Classics and History" [Qing] Zeng Guofan's

"Hundreds of Miscellaneous Notes on Classics and History (Up and Down)" is a collection of ancient prose compiled by Zeng Guofan. * * * Twenty-six volumes. The book "Hundreds of Miscellaneous Notes on Classics and History (Up and Down)" is another famous selected reading book of ancient Chinese prose, which has been widely circulated in the society and has a great influence from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, following Yao Nai's "Compilation of Ancient Chinese Words". The book is divided into eleven categories: treatise, ci fu, preface and postscript, imperial edict, memorial, letters, mourning, biography, narration, canon and miscellaneous notes.

Brief introduction of Zeng Guofan

Zeng Guofan (November 26, 1811-March 12, 1872), whose first name was Zicheng, whose name was Bo Han, whose name was Di Sheng and Shi Wenzheng, was born in Yangshuping, Xiangxiang County, Changsha City, Hunan Province (now it belongs to Heye Town, Shuangfeng County, Loudi City, Hunan Province). An important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, the founder and commander-in-chief of Xiang Army. Strategist and politician of Qing Dynasty, founder of the "Xiangxiang School" of prose in late Qing Dynasty. One of the "four famous ministers of ZTE" in the late Qing Dynasty, the official was the governor of Liangjiang, the governor of Zhili and the university student of Wuyingdian, and he was awarded the first-class Yi Yong Hou and called Wen Zheng.