Zeng Guofan, a legendary historical figure, has been evaluated with praise and depreciation so far, but the evaluation of Zeng Guofan by several important historical figures in modern and contemporary Chinese history has been invariably high.
Mao Zedong commented on Zeng Guofan: Foolish to his neighbors, he obeyed Zeng Wenzheng alone; Chiang Kai-shek commented on Zeng Guofan: "Li De made three immortal contributions, and for the teacher will be a perfect person." Liang Qichao commented on Zeng Guofan: "Zeng Wenzheng, only in modern times, there are not only people who have seen it in the history of Gai; it is not only our country, or the whole world that has seen it." ”
Zeng Guofan, a historical figure who indirectly influenced China's modern history, who thought that his birthplace, his old age residence, was so remote, and when he arrived in a ravine in Xiangxiang Township, Hunan Province, in that ravine, you looked left and right, and finally found a simple but solemn and solemn village "Hou ye mansion" full of a heavy sense of history.
Zeng Guofan was not from the royal family, not an aristocrat, just an ordinary person from the countryside, and in that era, at best, he was only a young master of the Hunan landlord's family, but the young master of this landlord's family, he became an official all the way, achieved "one person under ten thousand people" Yi Yonghou, recruited troops all the way, trained into the "Xiang Army" that no one was invincible at that time, and let the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom feel frightened, he promoted and gathered talents all the way, and achieved a group of scientific and technological cultural and creative talents in the late Qing Dynasty.
Zeng Guofan's Fuhou Hall, inhabited by 5 generations of Zeng family, is said to be the only rural Hou Mansion in China, although it is solemn and grand, but now when you walk into this "Hou Ye Mansion", you will see more, and it is also the "local atmosphere" of the rare farming civilization here.
The classification of the architectural functions of Fuhou hall, the former residence of Zeng Guofan, is still relatively obvious. The south library building of the house, the main house of The Eight Main Halls, there is an official car storage place in front of the compound, the east side of the compound is the granary, the storage place of agricultural tools and the cattle and sheep pen, the west side of the compound is the flower hall, that is, the banquet hall, and the two sides of the main house are the bedrooms.
Fuhoutang's bedroom was not as large as that of Baiyutang, the birthplace of Zeng Guofan, but the room was larger than that of Baiyutang. The room is now devoid of furnishings, only on the side of the library in the south of the house, you can see the old-fashioned 3 wooden bed and wardrobe in the bedroom where Zeng Xianshi once lived. The bedrooms of Zeng Guofan and Lady Ouyang were basically in the Siyun Hall on the outside of Fuhou Hall, where there was a bed and a small desk used by a generation of Hou Ye. These homes look simple, but they are quite historical, which is a feature of that era.
In the official car warehouse, which is the garage that we use now, there are two official cars stored here. One official car is carried by four people, and one official car is carried by two people. The official car was not only a means of transportation for officials in ancient times, but also a symbol of power and status. Different official products, in the shape type of the palanquin, the color of the curtain, the materials used in the curtain, the ornaments and the number of palanquins, can distinguish the different identities of the people who take the palanquin, the palanquins that the officials ride on, there are two people and eight people carrying, the officials with more than three pins are allowed to take the green car, take the "four-person carry" in Beijing, take the "eight-person carry" in Beijing, take the "eight-person carry" in the province, the four-pin to "six-pin", the quasi-blue car, take the "two-person carry" in the capital, and take the "four-person carry" when leaving Beijing.
The most interesting thing is the granary of the Zeng Guofan family and the agricultural tools stored there. These agricultural tools are stored in different warehouses, harvesting agricultural tools, farming tools, drying agricultural tools, etc., think of that era of farming civilization, even a grand marquis, these things are regarded as family treasures, because dozens or even hundreds of people in a family need to rely on these things to survive. This kind of "local atmosphere" has added a lot of fun to us who have rarely seen tourists, and aroused our great curiosity.