Read Zeng Guofan's "Ice Book"

The happiest thing at home is to look at idle books and listen to music through the floor-to-ceiling windows, basking in the sun. These two days in reading Zeng Guofan's books, lamenting that Zeng Guofan is really powerful, from a grass dweller to a late Qing Dynasty heavy minister, although his qualifications are ordinary, he can do what ordinary people can't do, and he can be diligent and thrifty every day, reflectively, and finally become what he wants to be. When Mao Zedong was young, he immersed himself in the study of Zeng Guofan's collected works and came to the conclusion that "a fool is close to others, and he obeys Zeng Wenzheng alone." Mr. Liang Qichao also recommended Zeng's family. The recommendations of these celebrities also reflect the cultural and ideological height of Zeng Guofan from one side.

"Ice Book" is a book that recognizes people and learns people. "The grain is the chaff and its essence exists", the words of god also. The god here has a broad connotation, it is a synthesis of various factors such as human will, knowledge, personality, cultivation, temperament, physical ability, talent, status, and social experience, and it is the inner mental state of man. For example, we say that this person has a very artist temperament, which will not disappear due to changes in his hairstyle, appearance, and clothing, and this temperament is one of the components of "God". We have met some people, the appearance is actually very ordinary, but talking, walking, and the smell revealed between the eyebrows, the charm that emanates from the inside out, is his unique temperament. Everyone's temperament is different, so everyone's mental state will be different. Zeng Guofan told everyone through this metaphor of rice and chaff that people cannot only look at the signs, but must combine the form of God, from the surface to the inside.

One of the basic principles of Zeng Guofan's knowledge of people is "clumsiness", that is, simplicity, less heart, no floating, and a down-to-earth and hard-working style. There must be no "evil appearance" on the outside, and virtue on the inside. Zeng Guofan judges people and decides whether they are available through looking at faces, inquiring about things, and examining speeches.

In the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty", it is recorded that Zeng Guofan "was the first guest, and when the gaze shifted, he did not speak, and those who saw it were shocked, and retreated to remember its advantages and disadvantages, and none or cool." Meaning: Every time Zeng Guofan received a guest, he always fixed his eyes on the guest for a long time and did not speak, the guests were very scared when they saw Zeng Guofan, and after Zeng Guofan talked, he wrote down the good or bad grades of this person, and there was no mistake or error, and the evaluation was very accurate. It can be said that the deeper Zeng Guofan's experience, the less he observes, and in terms of appearance, demeanor and speech, he is in his line of sight.

We all have to learn from Zeng Guofan to be good at knowing people, not to be deceived, not to be swayed. Only by being good at knowing people can we be close to gentlemen and far away, and interact with people who are really talented and practical and have a high pattern, so that we can make our hearts broader and make great progress.

Share Zeng Guofan quotes:

1, annoying, can not be an arrogant word.

2, do not be too smart.

3, with a broad mind, we must work hard from the word plain.

4. Those who enjoy great fame without reality will have miraculous misfortunes.

5. Do not lightly criticize the ancients.

6, first quiet, then think, five or six points to grasp that is to do.

7. Start another stove and reopen the world.

8, boys are self-reliant, must have stubbornness.

9, sleepy, it is the time to hone heroes.

10, the merit does not live alone, too much prevarication .