Letters from Zeng Guofan began to appear in my field of vision slowly, but it still didn't make me change my mind. In my opinion, the reason why Letter from the Traitor is so beautiful is nothing more than melodramatic.
Friends around me began to instill new ideas in me: this is a great man, but he was born in the wrong era; This is a great strategist, politician and so on. Finally, one day, when I was buying books for my children, I caught a glimpse of Zeng Guofan's Letter. I hesitated, and a line of small words jumped into my eyes, and finally made me pay: "the first perfect person in ancient and modern times."
Yes, The First Perfect Man in Ancient and Modern Times really surprised me. After all, we always say that "no one is perfect without gold", and now saying "perfect" or "the first perfect person in ancient and modern times" makes me curious and determined to read this book.
I skipped the preface just because I thought it was flattering words from later generations. After reading the first letter "Self-cultivation-the principle of keeping your father alive", there was not much fluctuation at first, just reading the following sentence: "My father didn't say goodbye, but the man has already said so." I'm a little touched. The father didn't do it, but the son took the initiative. So how bad can this son be? At this time, a crack appeared in my heart. Then, "men wait in Beijing, know their caution, and the elderly in the class don't have to worry." Now, how many children can take the initiative to call their parents and tell them not to worry about it? This filial piety is enough to prove Zeng Guofan's personality. How can a person who is afraid of death think of his parents everywhere? Everything is for parents?
In the second letter, "To brothers, teachers and friends, please consult modestly", Zeng Guofan's teachings to several younger brothers also deeply shocked me. He said: "If you can stand on your own feet, you can study at home, that is, in the wilderness, in the busy fields, or in the low-paid pastoral areas. If you can't stand on your own feet, your home school is not suitable for studying, that is, you can't study in a clean country or a fairy land. Why choose a place? Why choose the time? But asking yourself is not true! " This is a common phenomenon. People always complain about their own environment to ease their feelings of not wanting to study. Really? As long as you want to learn, you can learn even if you cut wood and set pigs free! Stay in the fairyland if you don't want to study, and you will make excuses! ! !
In "To Brothers * Advise Brothers to Remember to Study in Germany", Zeng Guofan said: "If you have a ruler, you will have my ruler, and if you have an inch, you will have my inch. If you score a point today, you will accumulate a liter of grain; How many people can study in Germany and study tomorrow at the same time? Morality and industry improve at the same time, and family business can flourish. " The book says,' It is difficult to know, but it is difficult to act.' "This is not the most difficult to know, but it is the most difficult to achieve. Zeng Guofan's intellectual accomplishment is really a demeanor for everyone!
Zeng Guofan wrote in "To Brothers * Persuade Brothers not to be snobbish" that "building a house is only lucky for Wen Chou, but the literati are not buried", which has given a blow to many people who think they are "incompetent"! In this letter, I couldn't help laughing: "Those friends who are beautiful in materials often rely on their own talents and say that others are not as good as themselves. When they meet local ink, they will scold local ink. Encounter ink, will scold the housekeeper, scold the examiner. Those who don't enroll students will marry the college. " Isn't this a naked "fake scholar"? I think people are very talented, and everyone is not as good as myself, but I don't know that I am a clown.
Get up early from 6: 40 to 7: 30 every day. If nothing else, be sure to read "Zeng Guofan's Letter" aloud. A person who started from ordinary people and made unremitting efforts to become one of the "four famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty" is definitely not a simple figure. Those unequal treaties were signed only because they were born in the wrong time and had no choice.
A person who is not afraid of making mistakes, an introspective person, and a person who can laugh at himself is born to be a "smart" wise man. He is proficient in self-cultivation, persuasion, housekeeping, politics, military affairs, making friends, keeping in good health and managing money. After his death, he was praised by the court as "pure learning, profound knowledge, loyal temperament and dedication", and he was praised by future generations as "the first perfect person in ancient and modern times"!