(i)
To say that the pride of Hunan people, probably many people know a couplet of Yuelu Academy:
Only Chu has material; Yu Si is prosperous.
According to legend, in the seventeenth to twenty-second years of Qing Jiaqing (1812-1817), Yuan Mingyao served as the head of Yuelu Academy. The doorman asked him to write the title of the Gate Alliance, and Yuan instructed the students to deal with it with "only Chu has the material". Before he was finished meditating, the Ming Jing (Gongsheng's honorific title) Zhang Zhongjiezhi, the people spoke, Zhang Yingsheng said: "Yu Si is sheng". This is the result of this painting.
Yuelu Academy
Realistically speaking, before the Qing Dynasty, there were not many famous Hunan people. The most famous are Qu Yuan and Jia Yi, but they are not Hunan people, they are exiled to Hunan. The only celebrities born to authentic Hunan are Jiang Wan, Ouyang Qian, Huai Su, Li Mengyang, Wang Fuzhi and so on. There were so many poets during the Tang Dynasty, and there were few famous poets in Hunan. The Song Dynasty was even worse than the old cousin Jiangxi next door, and they appeared yan shu, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Huang Tingjian, Zhu Xi and other prime ministers and celebrities. It is not as good as Hubei, which is connected by nine provinces. Hunan was only established as a province during the Kangxi Dynasty, and the previous Hunan juzi had to cross the Yangtze River thousands of miles to Wuchang for the examination. When Zuo Zongtang was admitted to the jinshi, there were only 14 places in Hunan at that time, which was equivalent to entering the top 14 in Hunan to pass the examination.
But since the emergence of a Tao Shu, coupled with Hong Xiuquan's super assist, Hunan people have sprung up.
Love the evening pavilion
When Hu Linyi was very young (7 years old), Tao Shu discovered this treasure and first recruited Qiang as a son-in-law; during the governorship of Liangjiang, he found his subordinate Lin Zexu and recommended Lin Zexu as his successor; at the age of 27, Zuo Zongtang found a treasure, and he could no longer recruit a son-in-law, and regardless of the generation and identity, the overlord formed a family with a hard bow. Although there is no direct promotion of Zeng Guofan, it is also a huge example. They can basically be said to be fellow countrymen. Zeng Guofan ( 曾国藩 ; Îồng) was a native of Xiangxiang ( now Shuangfeng , Loudi ) , and Washu Prefecture ( ) was under the jurisdiction of Changsha Prefecture ;
Then the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rebelled, sweeping through most of China, the Eight Banners naturally could not do it, and the regular army green battalion soldiers could not do it, which gave the Hunan people the opportunity to perform. Zeng Guofan and Luo Zenan, the scholars, set up a hard village and fought to the death, and they had to gnaw down the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom one by one, so there was a saying that "no Xiang can not form an army", of which countless people were able to supervise and care. According to Mr. Wota's incomplete statistics, the governors were: Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Peng Yulin, Liu Changyou, Liu Kunyi, Yang Yuebin, Zeng Guoquan, and others; the inspectors were: Hu Linyi, Guo Songtao, Jiang Zhongyuan, Li Xubin, Li Xuyi, Liu Rong, Liu Jintang, Chen Shijie, Jiang Yilan, and others; and important generals at the level of governor were: Luo Zenan, Xiao Fusi, Liu Songshan, Li Chendian, Wang Zhen, and Sun Kaihua.
XiangJun map
During the Republic of China period, Hunan continued to maintain its momentum, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was a red star shining on China. Of the 36 military experts officially identified by the Central Military Commission Chinese the People's Liberation Army, there are 15 Hunan military experts, accounting for 41 percent. (Sensitive words, omitted)
What is even more amazing is that many of these people are alumni of Yuelu Academy. "Only Chu has material, Yu Si is prosperous", it is really not a brag.
(ii)
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a Hunan man named Wang Minyun went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to give lectures. Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been a place of talent since ancient times, and there have been countless scholars in the past dynasties, and the local readers are not arrogant to this new Hunan person. In order to test his talent and learning, and deliberately exploring his school of learning and origin, Wang Minyun wrote this couplet response:
Wu Dao came south, originally a vein of Lianxi;
The great river goes east, and there is nothing but the aftermath of the Xiangshui River.
Who is Lianxi? It is zhou Dunyi, the founding ancestor of science, a native of Daozhou, Hunan, and Lianxi is his number. When the crowd looked at it, they were dumbfounded. At this time, when the Xiang army was in full swing, without Zeng Zuo Penghu (Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Peng Yulin, Hu Linyi), these Hunan people, the entire Qing court would collapse. This story is not out of thin air, Wu Gongheng's "Couplets" has a clear record, and it is also said that the couplets are hung on the pillars of the Jiangnan Gongyuan.
Wang Minyun is a native of Xiangtan, Hunan, and has lectured at Chengnan Academy in Changsha, Hunan. This person had been an aide to Zeng Guofan, but he was arrogant and intoxicated with the study of emperors, and his original wishful thinking was to find a person to be the emperor and become a national teacher himself. This ideal object is Zeng Guofan. However, the great marshal could not get on his thief ship, which made him feel that his knowledge could not play a role. Therefore, he trained a disciple named Yang Du.
Yang Du was a strange man in China's modern history, who successively participated in the activities of writing on the bus in the late Qing Dynasty, changing the law and restoring the new, and then supported Yuan Shikai as emperor, and then later participated in the restoration of Puyi, the emperor of the late Qing Dynasty. After 1928, he lived in Shanghai, sold calligraphy and paintings for a living, and was a "Cleaner" under Du Yuesheng's door, and in his later years, through the development of Zhou Enlai, he actually joined the Communist Party of China.
As we all know, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the country was worried about internal and external turmoil and the country was not in the country, Liang Rengong wrote an article entitled "The Young Man Says China", which raised the issue of "a strong youth is a strong country; a young man is wise, then the country is wise", which caused great repercussions at home and abroad. And Yang Du wrote a "Hunan Teenager Says", which is an answer to Liang Qichao's "Young China Says" call. Later, the poem reads: "China is now Greece, Hunan is Sparta, China will be Germany, and Hunan will be Prussia." The kings and kings are cautious in this way, and they must not say anything in a hurry. If the Chinese nation is dead, unless the people of Hunan are dead. These verses have had a great impact and inspirational effect on young students, and the encouragement to Hunan people continues to this day.
Finally, with the founder of the Xiangjun Marine Division, Xue Shuai Peng Yulin in the Jinling Hunan Guild Hall inscription of a couplet ending, with 68 million Hunan people Mian Zhi:
Dong Liang gathers Zi Nan, brings Heng Yue Chun Yun, shade Wu Di;
The tribe traced the Xiang Dynasty to the Xiang Dynasty, and was divided into Dongting Autumn Moon and Illuminating Qin Huai.