Speaking of Hunan province, I think I only remember that it has a mango station, in all the tv stations in the country, it can be said that in addition to CCTV, it is the strongest mango station, it is obvious that the biggest and loudest golden sign in Hunan now is mango station. But we are not talking about a tv station, but the province of Hunan.
From the map, it is obvious that Hunan is located in the Chinese mainland, but also in the central region, its provincial capital is Changsha, but well, Changsha is not a first-tier city, compared with the north, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, it is still some distance, and even the first largest city in the central region, Wuhan, there is some distance. However, Hunan is not a simple province, as Chairman Mao's hometown, Hunan is of course very clever, but there is only one Chairman Mao, then you will underestimate Hunan province.
Among the founding generals alone, there are as many as a hundred Hunan nationals. According to statistics, there are 3 marshals, 6 generals, 19 generals, 45 lieutenant generals, and 129 major generals. Of course, it is not surprising that the lake has so many founding generals in the south.
As early as the period of the Great Revolution, four uprisings broke out in Hunan: the Autumn Harvest Uprising, which we are familiar with, and the Xiangxi Rebellion, the Xiangnan Rebellion and the Pingjiang Uprising. Unsurprisingly, these 4 uprisings were successful, stirring up one surging red tide after another, sweeping across the land of Huxiang. So that the Hunan people who dared to resist and take responsibility threw themselves into it and bravely shouldered the heavy burden and became the core backbone of the Red Wave.
But if you just think that Hunan is this history, you are very wrong. As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, Hunan "came to the fore", and there were hundreds of Hunan nationals who served as senior officials in the imperial court and localities alone, including two of the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty: Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang. Of course, not only these, in the late Qing Dynasty and early Min, there were many talents from Hunan, and familiar figures, such as Tan Sitong of the Six Gentlemen of Wushu, Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren of the League, and Cai Yi, the general of the Protectorate. And so on, these people are the heroes of the time.
But then again, why has Hunan produced so many heroic talents in modern times? Is this a coincidence, or is it inevitable?
Of course, there are coincidences, but it cannot be denied that there is no soil for the birth of talents in the land of Hunan.
First, let me ask: Where does talent come from? Education, of course. Without education, where is the talent? Education, in philosophical terms, is the superstructure, and the economic base determines the upper education. Therefore, in general, the richer the place, the more attention is paid to education.
As we all know, there was a Taiping Rebellion at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and this Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement changed the economic and cultural distribution brought about by China's natural geographical conditions. How to explain it? Because of this uprising, most of China at that time fell into a state of decay, and the area south of the Yangtze River was almost unmanned. Although Hunan was also a hard-hit area at that time, in the war to suppress the Taiping Rebellion, the biggest success was obviously the Xiang Army group represented by Zeng Guofan.
These peasant children, who had ascended to the class of meat eaters by virtue of their military merits, had the conditions for their children to receive a high standard of education, which was the best soil for modernization.
The bureaucrats of the Xiangjun clique, after pacifying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, obtained sufficient political and economic resources, from Zeng Wenzheng to Zuo Wenxiang, as well as Zhang Nanpi, who was not a Xiang national but had been sitting in Huguang for a long time, in the process of taking charge of the foreign affairs movement, they laid out and introduced modern production, cultural and educational elements in their own spheres of influence.
Although the words are not good, the rise of modern Hunan is really inseparable from the support of Zeng Guofan and his Xiang army. Therefore, the prosperity of modern Hunan began with Zeng Guofan, I think it is not too much, Zuo Zongtang, Hu Linyi, Li Hongzhang, Liu Mingzhuan, Shen Baozhen (Lin Zexu's son-in-law) and other modern celebrities have more or less relations with Zeng Guofan.
Doesn't "Hunan Youth Song" have such lyrics?
"China is now Greece, Hunan is Sparta, China will be Germany, and Hunan will be Prussia."
I think it is not an exaggeration to say that Hunan man-made modern China.