This is a poem written by Confucian general Zuo in Wuxi Meiyuan, Jiangsu Province in the Qing Dynasty. Li Ka-shing regards it as the only calligraphy hanging in the office.

Zuo (1812165438+1October1KLOC-0/September 5, 885) was an important official, strategist, politician, famous soldier of Xiang Army and leader of Westernization School in the late Qing Dynasty.

Zuo's life has experienced major historical events such as Xiang Army's pacification of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Westernization Movement, Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion, Xinjiang's recovery, and Xinjiang's establishment of a province. Official to the East Pavilion University, Minister of Military Aircraft, sealed second-class but Hou Jing. During the Sino-French War, he invited himself to Fujian to supervise the division. In the 11th year of Guangxu (1885), he died in Fuzhou at the age of 73. Posthumous title's "Wen Xiang" as a gift to Taifu was incorporated into Zhao Zhong and Xianliang Memorial Hall? .

He is the author of Chu Barracks System, and his script and literature are The Complete Works of Wen Zuo's "xianggong". Together with Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong, they are called "the four famous ministers of ZTE in the late Qing Dynasty".