People nowadays should say that they have caught up with the good times. With the rapid development of information technology, no matter how far the distance between people is, it seems close at hand. People can communicate anytime and anywhere through telephone, SMS, WeChat and the Internet. Electronic communication technology has completely changed people's lives, and modern people can say goodbye to the original stationery and envelopes. However, no matter how convenient and quick it is, I always feel a little less. Reading Zeng Guofan's Letter, I can't help thinking of writing and reading letters myself more than ten years ago. Letters with the smell of ink and paper are very kind and warm to read. Every word and sentence in the letter is vivid, as if the sender was sitting beside him. Reading letters from relatives and friends, I feel the deep friendship of the sender. Nowadays, whether you answer the phone or read short messages, you always feel a little less lasting appeal and feeling.
Reading Zeng Guofan's letters, we can see the other side of Zeng Guofan as a famous historical minister, that is, the best and warmest light of kindness in human nature. Letters from home, regardless of length, are full of care and love for relatives and friends, and between the lines are full of the most beautiful morality of the Chinese nation-filial piety. A generation of celebrities showed us his profound moral cultivation through letters from home. Looking at Ceng Gong's letters from home, I felt his deep affection for his family in his bones. Ceng Gong, an official in Beijing, wrote in his letter to his grandfather, "An official in Beijing lives by borrowing from the east and borrowing from the west ..." Ceng Gong repeatedly mentioned the hardships of life in his letter, but he always tried his best to help his family and relatives. After reading it, he felt "the feeling of reading Zeng Guofan's letters". Seeing this, I was moved to cry. Now we live in an era of rich material life, but almost everyone feels very confused and confused. Perhaps we are confused because we lack the same affection and friendship as Ceng Gong.
Maybe it's because there are too many temptations in the world now, or maybe it's because everyone is busy pursuing fame and fortune. Nowadays, the deep affection and friendship that people once had seems to be weakening gradually, and the ties that maintain emotional ties between people are becoming more and more fragile, and the depth and quality of feelings are maintained on the balance of interests. Once the balance of interests is seriously out of balance, once strong family ties and friendship will become indifferent. The ancients said that "the rich have distant relatives in the mountains, and the poor are busy and nobody asks", which is more prominent in today's extremely civilized society. It seems a little thin that we blame everything on the poor and the rich. In the book Letter from Zeng Guofan, we can see from many letters that Ceng Gong, as an official, has a very hard life, and sometimes he lives on charcoal money donated by foreign officials in winter. Such a living condition may seem inconceivable now, but that was the living condition of Ceng Gong at that time. Even so, he did not forget to try his best to help his family, friends and relatives. After reading Ceng Gong's letters, I had an epiphany. The golden key to maintaining family friendship is not fame and fortune, but profound cultural accomplishment and moral edification.
Ceng Gong mentioned the learning situation of his younger brothers thousands of times in his letters home, from which we can see that the Zeng family attached importance to education. The deep friendship between the lines in Ceng Gong's books comes from Ceng Gong's profound cultural accomplishment and accumulation. Therefore, the real root of changing people's quality lies in education and culture. Today, what modern people lack is material development and education is relatively backward. The imbalance between material and cultural development has led to a series of social and moral problems.
At present, in China, while developing economy, the more urgent problem is to develop culture and education. Economy can change people's living conditions, and culture and education can change the quality of a nation and country. Only when the people are strong can the country be rich and strong, and the first thing that makes the people strong should be cultural quality and moral cultivation. A person without culture and moral cultivation is a beast at best, even if he is rich in gold and silver. After all, because people are animals that rely on feelings, there is no difference between animals and animals without feelings.
The profound friendship in Zeng Guofan's letters is exactly what the confused modern people are losing and eager to get. When everyone's heart is full of deep affection and friendship, maybe this society will not be so impetuous and fanatical, and maybe everyone's heart will be more peaceful and comfortable. To build a harmonious society, harmony comes from people's profound cultural accumulation and moral cultivation, and there may be no other way.
Ceng Gong, as a figure or leader with mixed reputation in history, we don't comment on his merits and demerits in history, but only on the most shining and beautiful point of his human nature. No one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes. Finally, this article ends with a poem by Ceng Gong, "There are multiplication and division everywhere in the world. Bow your head and worship the sheep and say everything about space. "