Qing Wei | Zeng Guofan: Do not accumulate silver money to keep with his children and grandchildren, but the books are still thoughtful to buy ears

Ma Cilian / Text

In Chinese history, Zeng Guofan, a major minister of the Qing Dynasty, was a politician, military expert, theoretician, and literary scholar, one of the "famous ministers" of the Qing Dynasty, and an official of Wuyingdian University and the governor of Liangjiang. In the hundreds of years of the qing dynasty's history, no Han Chinese has such a big position of power. His ideas and practices on homeschooling are commendable. At that time, the world was in a state of flux, and in the era of several dynasties and dynasties, the Zeng family always maintained a rigorous family style, and celebrities emerged, continuing for five generations without fading.

Although Zeng Guofan was powerful and powerful, he had a set of philosophies in governing the family, so that future generations of people prospered, whether they were for the country or business, they could be called elites from all walks of life. He focused his education on cultivating the "mind," the "body," and the "deeds." Cultivating the "heart" is the cultivation of people's intellectual strength and the cultivation of people's moral character. Zeng Guofan advocated the cultivation of "heart" to make his children "cautious and independent", "filial piety", "benevolence", "respect", "humility", "forgiveness" and so on. Cultivating the "body" is to maintain and cultivate to obtain a healthy body. To this end, Zeng Guofan repeatedly taught his children to work moderately, punish suffocation, sleep and eat constantly, and practice farming. Zeng Guofan also paid attention to the cultivation of "behavior", requiring his children to speak and behave simply, treat others with humility and tolerance, and not be high and mean, and also have to go to luxury in life.

Zeng Guofan was usually quiet and taciturn, and after he became an official, he was very strict with his family and never allowed his family to do private affairs in his name. He demanded that all his children and grandchildren, that all of his housework should be done by himself, that his clothes should be washed by himself, and that his own affairs should not be done by others. Therefore, his children and grandchildren did not have good and bad work, but they were all self-reliant to start a business. In order to cultivate his children and grandchildren to become gentlemen who read and understand, Zeng Guofan made great efforts in the study of his children and grandchildren. He did not buy land and property, "did not accumulate silver money to keep with his children and grandchildren, but books were still thoughtful to buy ears." He always bought all the books that his children and nephews wanted, and he bought several sets of them. He also built a library building in his home, with more than 100,000 books, creating good learning conditions for future generations.

Mr. Zeng Guofan said: There are three points to look at the rise and fall of a family. First, the children and grandchildren sleep until what time they get up, and if they sleep until the sun rises high, it means that the family will slowly slacken off. Second, look at whether the children and grandchildren have done housework, because of industriousness, the habit of labor or affect a person's life. Third, see if future generations have read the sages. "People don't learn, they don't know righteousness", they don't learn and don't understand the principles of how to behave and behave.

Educating his children from life and study, educating his children with specific things, Mr. Zeng Guofan has a correct concept and a far-sighted approach to things, so his descendants are very prosperous. Zeng Guofan's godson's way and Zeng Guofan's family education concept are still the treasures of China's educational thought.

Many people admire Zeng Guofan very much. Mao Zedong said, "Give to your neighbors and obey Zeng Wenzheng alone." Meaning: I only admire Zeng Guofan as a big figure in modern times. Many entrepreneurs in China today, Ren Zhengfei, Liu Chuanzhi, Ning Gaoning, Li Dongsheng and other bigwigs are also "fans" of Zeng Guofan.

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