Zeng Guofan, a famous high school student, also has great expectations. He studied hard for more than ten years just to learn something and show his ambition. However, Zeng Guofan's ability is limited, and he does not belong to the category of cleverness, so his road to imperial examinations is doomed to stop when he can't go to high school.
Zeng Guofan loves reading, and he often talks about reading. Therefore, he spends more time on his studies than ordinary people. It is more difficult for a person to make his knowledge lofty and famous in the world than to study hard for ten years, but the diligent Zeng Guofan did it this time.
Zeng Guofan is not only famous in literature, but also has his own unique views on governing the country, cultivating self-cultivation and reading. He showed us perfectly what a stupid bird flies first and can make up for it diligently.
What is more commendable is that Zeng Guofan also has his praise in family rules and children's education. The famous Letter from Zeng Guofan is that he is in a foreign country, but he also cares about his family, infecting and educating his children in the form of letters from home.
Therefore, Zeng Guofan is such an all-rounder that many people wonder whether he was a genius since he was a child, or how he could be so excellent. In fact, Zeng Guofan's achievements are related to his good habits and self-cultivation.
For Zeng Guofan's achievements, in the book Zeng Guofan, the author Fu also gave his views. In this book, he not only combs Zeng Guofan's life story, but also shows us the road to success of a historical figure like Zeng Guofan through his life experience and correspondence, giving readers a three-dimensional image of Zeng Guofan.
China people have a bad habit since ancient times, that is, they hold the status of scholars high. Anyone who has a scholar at home will put an end to everything except reading. Things like working or earning money to support the family are not allowed to intervene before high school.
They think that scholars are gentlemen and should concentrate on reading, eat well, dress well, be isolated from the world and study behind closed doors. This is what a scholar should do. The ancients believed that reading should be based on books, which have their own Yan Ruyu, no world outside books, and no learning outside books.
So behind closed doors, many scholars know nothing about the world and know little about it, only love affairs. Therefore, the so-called learning of the ancients is to be manifested in the cause, and that is true learning.
But throughout the ages, people who do business are often ignorant and humble, and those who call themselves scholars often die under chapters and become slaves of the ancients. The fundamental reason for all this is that the ancients divided learning and career into two parts.
In the past 500 years, there are only two people who can show their knowledge in official career: Wang Yangming in Ming Dynasty and Zeng Guofan in Qing Dynasty. Both of them were troubled by books and went through hardships. They did their best in their studies, honed their own success, and became famous in later generations. They have all spent half their lives in the army, studying for the sake of learning, and they are not tired.
Compared with Wang Yangming's talent, Zeng Guofan is very honest. Zeng Guofan's knowledge came out step by step with his feet on the ground. So there will be no disadvantage in his knowledge. If people as smart as Wang Yangming are brilliant, Zeng Guofan is also a school-going person. Because of going to school, Zeng Guofan's view on learning is different from that of ordinary people, but he can also set an example.
This passage of Zeng Guofan expressed his views on reading to us. He believes that applying what he has learned from reading to himself and applying what he has learned to himself is the real learning. And those who are literate, even if they can write poems, are arty and boastful, just literate. How can they be regarded as sensible and useful people?
His learning spirit is commendable, and his writing is simple and proficient. He doesn't ask about harvest, only about cultivation and being a man. He always asks for fasting to avoid his arrogance and laziness. He often said, "Nothing in the world is impossible without suffering, but it can last for a long time." He also said: "all diseases are born of laziness, laziness is slow, slowness is lax, and rest is insensitive, and one thing is slack, and a hundred things are slack."
Zeng Guofan is a man, a doer and a scholar. He guards against arrogance and rashness and sets an example with the attitude and methods that scholars should have. Therefore, his cultivation is also extremely high, which makes him famous and has been reused for many years to come.
In fact, if you want to achieve great success in any knowledge, you must have perseverance, and perseverance must be cultivated first. For example, a scholar must have good skills in order to apply what he has learned to the world. Therefore, the physical and mental cultivation of scholars is indeed the source of all knowledge.
Zeng Guofan's achievements in learning are so brilliant because of his high self-cultivation, but his self-cultivation kung fu will not fail because of his daily work, study and introspection. Whether reading and writing, dealing with others, or politics, Zeng Guofan has always been self-cultivation-oriented. He applied his self-cultivation skills to practice and deepened his self-cultivation from practice.
"Ease is death, diligence is talent and use, and ease is incompetence and abandonment. Diligence is the love and admiration of people. Comfort is not helpful to people, but ghosts and gods are not worried. It is a gentleman who wants to become a god and is greater than learning. "
This passage comes from Zeng Guofan's diary, which shows that his cultivation kung fu is profound. If you do what Zeng Guofan wrote, you will be too scattered, guard against arrogance and rashness, be happy physically and mentally, be full of energy, and you will not be lazy in doing things.
The cultivation kung fu used is not only reflected in his virtue, but also in his personal ideological realm. He once attributed all physical and mental cultivation to nothingness. He believes that "sages teach people a thousand words, but they should focus on not wanting too much." If you don't go, you will be covered with thorns. If you don't, it will get dirty. "He regards the pursuit of nothing in life as his own ideological standard, and the achievement of natural cultivation is gradual day by day.
Zeng Guofan set a good example in both physical and mental cultivation and ideological cultivation, and applied what he learned to cultivation. He not only attaches importance to body and mind, but also does not slack off in spiritual cultivation. As the source of life, spirit is a more advanced existence of human beings. If the body is just a body or a carrier, then only the spirit can make people become real people and the spirit of all things.
Zeng Guofan also attached great importance to the cultivation of this spirit. He often mentioned in his letters home that to cultivate this spirit, he should sit quietly, control himself simply and change for the better. He said: "without spirit, things come in line, the future does not match, there was no mixing, and there was no love in the past, which was just emptiness." Therefore, Zeng Guofan's way of nourishing the mind and governing the mind should be three-layered, one is: sitting quietly, the other is dull, and the third is mending, and dullness is the backbone of nourishing the mind.
If Zeng Guofan's study is to apply what he has learned, and the imperial examination is to serve the country faithfully, to show his learning, to cultivate one's morality, to cultivate one's mind and to cultivate one's nature, and it is the cornerstone of life, then governing the country is the glory of Zeng Guofan. Because of his expertise in officialdom, Zeng Guofan was passed down through the ages. Therefore, Zeng Guofan's way of governing the country is the most important point in his whole knowledge.
His life and career can be reflected in managing his family, army and politics. Zeng Guofan's lifelong knowledge was mostly honed in his official career. The reason why his career is flourishing and his reputation is widely spread is closely related to his knowledge cultivation.
In Zeng Guofan's spirit of doing things, the most important thing is that he always sets a standard and moves towards the goal until he succeeds. His formulation of this scale can not only make everything move forward in a planned way, but also make people work hard towards their own goals, so nothing can be done well.
He believes that "those who achieved great things in ancient times are far-reaching and closely related to the prime minister, and both are indispensable." This passage is enough to see the essence of Zeng Guofan's rule of the country, that is, first set a good scale, and then slowly ponder. The word "scale" seems simple, but it is not easy to do it.
The words "clear", "cautious" and "diligent" are the yardsticks of Zeng Guofan's self-encouragement, but in doing things, they are mainly based on two yardsticks: standing high and imperceptibly. In order to carry out the standards set by himself, Zeng Guofan himself was "shrinking himself and seeking people's hearts." In his life, he achieved this scale and kept on doing it.
Regarding this length, in Zeng Guofan, the author summed up three points: sincere attitude, large quantity and strict examination. These three points constitute his invariability and have never changed his life. His style of study, the scale of his work and his life are all in this constant.
His other management spirit lies in his eyes, mouth, hands and heart. Zeng Guofan's spirit of managing the family has not only made outstanding achievements in doing things, but also achieved fruitful results in managing the family. His family spirit was influenced by his grandfather CCBA. There are rules for Xinggang Gongzhi to educate children. Zeng Guofan was taught by his grandfather when he was a child.
It has always been difficult to run a family since ancient times. Therefore, Zeng Guofan's housekeeping is the most serious. He said: "Strict management of the family is precious, and strict father often has more filial sons. If it is not strict, it will lead to children's habits. If it is lazy, it is unspeakable. " So he ruled the family and vowed to make a fortune even if he was not an official, so as to leave it to future generations.
Zeng Guofan not only managed the family well, but also managed the army in his own unique way. It is said that the times make heroes. Zeng Guofan won the imperial examination, thinking that he had left the officialdom and devoted himself to learning in this life, but he did not expect to go to the officialdom to experience and run the army one day.
Although Zeng Guofan is a scholar, he is not weak in running the army. He thinks that running the army and studying are two different ways. Therefore, when he was in charge of the army, he treated the root of the disease first and treated the pain with medicine. All the soldiers he trained were arrogant, impetuous and not lazy, and all of them were energetic and useful. Throughout his life, he was driven by diligence and brought this ethos to the army, which made all his soldiers think of "diligence".
When it comes to the battlefield, Zeng Guofan is not an armchair strategist in our imagination, but a real retreat, and the defeat is in front of us. And when he leads troops to fight, he controls the right with strangeness and uses static braking. Combining these two things, he can win by surprise. Zeng's strategy can be said to take the Lord as the body and the strangeness as the right.
Throughout Zeng Guofan's life, he applied what he had learned and applied what he had learned. The book Diligent Zeng Guofan not only accurately summarizes Zeng Guofan's life, but also makes readers gain something when reading this book. If we follow Zeng Guofan's method of managing the family and affairs, we will benefit from his self-cultivation for life.