It means that the decline of rich children stems from the word "luxury", ease and enjoyment. Finally, it is not far from failure. People should be like plum blossoms, so people naturally stay at a respectful distance from each other and stay away from each other, and it is even less likely to be annoying. On the contrary, pride is an obvious ignorance.

This sentence comes from Zeng Guofan. There are three striking words in Zeng Guofan's letters: "luxury", "ease" and "arrogance". He regards it as a measure of failure in life. If you can't get rid of the malice of these three words, life will degenerate and fail! "Family failure can not be separated from luxury, people can not be separated from escape, and people can not be separated from arrogance", quoted from Zeng Guofan's letter, is what Zeng Guofan often warned himself and future generations.

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Zeng Guofan pursued Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism all his life, but he did not blindly worship Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism. In fact, he also borrowed from other schools of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties. Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties is actually divided into three academic schools: Qi, Neo-Confucianism and Mind.

In his political practice and military struggle, Zeng Guofan gradually saw the limitations of Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, such as "teaching by words", "illness" or "quietness". In this case, Zeng Guofan showed a tolerant academic attitude towards the theory of mind. As for the academic debate between Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism and Wang Lu's Neo-Confucianism, he thinks that the debate between the two factions should learn from their similarities, avoid their differences, develop their strengths, take everything into consideration, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, and promote the development of Confucianism.