Zeng Guofan's Twelve Principles of Self-Discipline:

1. Main Respect: Neat and serious, Qingming is bowing, like the rising sun.

2. Sit quietly: No matter the time of day, sit quietly for four moments every day, keeping your posture upright and concentrating your life, like the town of a tripod.

3. Get up early: Get up at dawn, and don’t fall in love after waking up.

Four. Read the same book: Don’t read another book until you finish one.

5. Read history: Read the Twenty-Three Histories, circle ten pages every day, and do not stop even if something happens.

6. A word of caution: Pay attention at all times, the first priority.

7. Nourishing Qi: Qi is stored in the Dantian, and there is nothing that cannot be said to others.

8. Protect yourself: save labor, abstain from sexual intercourse, and exercise moderation in diet.

9. Know what you don’t have every day: read every day and record your insights.

Ten. Do not forget what you can do every month: compose several poems and essays every month to test the amount of accumulated principles and whether the Qi is nourished.

11. Writing: Write for half an hour after a meal. All communication with writing and ink should be regarded as one's own course. If you don't wait for tomorrow, the accumulated accumulation will become more difficult to clear.

12. Staying away from home at night: tired from work and work, so abstain from doing anything.

Zeng Guofan (November 26, 1811 - March 12, 1872), originally named Zicheng, with the courtesy name Bohan and the nickname Disheng, was the 70th grandson of the sage Zengzi. Chinese statesman, strategist, Neo-Confucianist, litterateur, calligrapher, founder and commander of the Hunan Army in the late Qing Dynasty.