A letter from Zeng Guofan is well worth reading.
Although "Letters from Zeng Guofan" aims at educating aristocratic men on the truth of being a man and the importance of learning, it inherits the traditional letters from Zeng Guofan, forms a unique exposition with rich connotations, extensive knowledge and profound insights, and forms a concentrated expression of Zeng Guofan's thoughts, which has had an important impact on later generations.
Letters from home can help us establish a healthy attitude towards life and even form a correct outlook on life and values.
Letters from home, with emotional words, embody the principles of life, good life style and strong patriotic enthusiasm, and contain rich cultural connotations and moral strength, so they are widely respected and recognized. The most prominent function of family letters is to inherit the essence of family culture and contain the brilliant thoughts of traditional family education. It helps us to establish a healthy and upward attitude towards life and a correct outlook on life and values.
The educational concept of letters from home has strong operability.
1.？ Although some educational thoughts in Zeng Guofan's letters are only expounded in the letters, they do not stop at pure theoretical education. He asked children to apply theory to practice to deal with trivial matters and daily affairs, so as to provide some reference for solving and dealing with problems at ordinary times. The purpose of teaching children to read is to use books, not to become slaves and nerds.
2.？ Zeng Guofan read widely all his life and had his own views on scholarship. He believes that reading must be persevering in order to succeed, and there is no need to be confused in order to say that there is not much in it. Therefore, Zeng Guofan asked his children not to give up halfway, but to persevere.
3. Correcting attitude and attaching importance to reading are the important contents of Zeng Guofan's letters to teach children to read. He revealed the importance of a correct attitude between the lines. Zeng Guofan was away from home all the year round, unable to personally supervise his children, but he also asked them to learn from each other in his letters, and asked them to report to himself once every once in a while, and the supervision over their children never relaxed.
4.？ Zeng Guofan emphasized that reading should not be utilitarian and impatient, but should concentrate on reading and pay attention to accumulation. He teaches children to read, not to be insatiable, to choose what is beneficial and what they like, and to choose with a clear purpose, rather than reading at will. Pay attention to selective reading and intensive reading on a broad basis.
In Zeng Guofan's letters, some feudal ethics adhered to by Zeng Guofan have certain limitations, but in reality they are of great help to teach children to grow up and cultivate the principles of being a man.
So, how to evaluate Zeng Guofan?
Under the guidance of Zeng Guofan, the first ship in China was built, which opened the precedent of modern manufacturing industry. The establishment of the first ordnance school initiated the modern higher education in China. The first translation and printing of western books not only laid the scientific and technological foundation of modern China, but also greatly broadened the horizons of Chinese people. Arranging the first batch of overseas students to study in the United States has trained a large number of pillar talents for the country, including the first Prime Minister of the Republic of China, Tang, China? Father of the railway? Zhan Tianyou, Minister of Foreign Affairs Liang Dunyan in the late Qing Dynasty and Guoan Tang, the first president of Tsinghua University, are outstanding representatives.
Since ancient times, China has made contributions, established himself and made a statement? However, there are very few people who can really do it, and Zeng Guofan is one of them. He defeated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and saved the land of the Great Qing Dynasty. Does he belong to the Qing Dynasty? Savior? ; Him? Save time? Clean up the political style, learn western culture, and make the late Qing Dynasty appear? Tongzhi zhongxing? ; He has always been strict with himself, advocating honesty, flaunting morality and practicing himself, and has won unanimous support from top to bottom; His academic articles are eclectic, extensive and profound, and he is a master of modern Confucianism. Is his book a must-read for any politician? .
Zeng Guofan, as a generation of honest officials at the end of feudal society, it is difficult to draw a conclusion about his merits and demerits, but his achievements in education have always been respected and recognized by everyone. He always sticks to his point of view? Cultivate one's morality, keep one's family in order, govern the country and level the world? Ambition, not at the same time as other officials, live aboveboard.
Zeng Guofan is the first person in China to cultivate one's morality and put his family in order to govern the country.