One hundred and fifteen today
Text/Yuan Zhirong
(1) Dynasty
On this day 150 years ago, that is, on March 12, 1872, Zeng Guofan, a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty, died in the Liangjiang Governor's Palace. It is not easy to say that it is a national martyrdom, but in the precarious late Qing Dynasty, it can be described as a dynasty martyrdom.
He died on December 31, 2012 at the age of 6 It is a far cry from the time it takes to realize one's ambitions. But at that moment, he could no longer dominate his thinking and breath, leaving a "foot numbness", leaving a "strange itch", leaving a lifetime of "clear discussion", and regretting "going west".
I don't know if it rained that day, but what we know is that the "tear rain" of the old Zeng family has not stopped, the "joint rain" of sacrifice and mourning has not stopped, and all kinds of "evaluation rain" have not stopped. The castle of the kingdom, the high pillar stone; the jun's strand humerus, the imperial court four close; the giant of learning, the tongcheng jinrui; the pillar of the family, the pillar of the middle stream. His death should be a matter of grief for the whole family and a shock to the public.
Student Li Hongzhang came to pull: Thirty years of teachers, the fire is passed on, the building of the room is the growth of the door; the threat is 90,000 miles, the internal security and the outside are strong, and it is difficult to meet the world. It means that the idea and scholarship of the teacher will always be passed on. Standing on the heavens, he mourns the loss of the pillar of the imperial court.
Zuo Zongtang, a "slanderous friend", sent people to send people to the northwest battlefield to send him to tie the league: knowing the wisdom of the people, seeking the loyalty of the country, ashamed of being inferior to Yuanfu; if the heart is like gold, the attack is like a stone, and the phase is not worthy of life. Zeng Zuomingli had a deep contradiction, Zuo openly rebuked Zeng, and secretly seemed to be singing "double reed" in order to obstruct people's eyes and ears and protect Huxiang. This joint expression shows zuo's true heart, examines the details of people, seeks loyalty to the country, and is ashamed that he is not as good as Lao Zeng. But the hearts of "comrades" are as precious as gold, the words of slander are as hard as stones, the brothers know each other and pity each other, and they have no regrets in this life.
In addition to the shock and sadness of the Qing court, the praise for the deceased is not low-key, and the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty" says: Since Zhongxing, there has been only one person.
There are many comments on Zeng's comments, and in the past 150 years, it has been chaotic and chaotic, and it has never been broken, but in the end, there are clear positive and negative points, and it is difficult to unify. Time and space shuttle to today, the personality is stable, the internality is more than enough, through the Fang family and the folk, the top and the grassroots, the "Hinayana" and the public, the return to the new, the heart carved eyebrows, finally let a multi-dimensional integration, multi-point construction of the "comprehensive" Zeng Wenzheng is about to come out. In addition to the limitations of the times and the images of feudal dross, we can outline The "benchmark portrait" of the Zeng family: patriotism, love of the post, love of the family, love of the "lotus", recognition of people and use of people, loyalty to the king, loyalty and filial piety, loyalty and courage, governance of the country and the army, learning and governance of the family, Ming Dao Mingde ming and clear heart, prudence and prudence and prudence.
(ii) Reality
Zeng Guofan was born 211 years ago in a family of lotus pond cultivators. Coming to this world, although he and his family had high hopes for the establishment of a family, they would never have imagined that one day they would become milestone figures in Chinese history, or historical figures recorded in Khan Qing.
Times make heroes. Of course, he is not necessarily the hero who is "recognized" at present, or he is not just a "hero of the times", but it should be okay to say that the times create a person.
His "three hundred and sixty-five miles" can be summed up in a few words.
In the first thirty years, he leisurely saw the South Mountain and studied in the XiangHu Lake. The qualifications are dull, but the baht is accumulated. In the next ten years, starting from the review of the Hanlin Academy, he smoothly served as the deputy of the ministry, moved seven times in ten years, jumped ten levels in a row, and became a hard-working and self-motivated believer in science. For more than ten years, he switched from civilian official to the position of commander of the Xiang Army as a regimental training minister, and transferred from science to shenhan. Unswervingly implement the "clumsy" strategic decision-making, tremble and face the "divine skills" of the world, "special graces and strange numbers, gathered in one door", "feel that life has reached a climax, feel that life has reached its peak". In another ten years, although he had no merit in suppressing the battlefield and "felt ashamed and guilty" in the Tianjin teaching case, he repeatedly won Xinfang in helping Huxiang and Xinglong Tongcheng, and was used by the world. In the midst of the situation in life, his figure gradually grew old and decayed, but his gaze was always like a torch, Qingyuan led to living water, repaired canals to guide vitality, set a precedent for modern customs, and did Practical Things for Xu Tu to strengthen himself. Sixty-one years into his life, he should have been a politician who promoted and accelerated the process of China's modernization.
The whiskers are so short that they are only a glimpse, but the delicate thin hair seems to span several eras and even more chronicles. Perhaps it was that China was experiencing the greatest changes in that era in a hundred years, which invisibly lengthened the longitude, latitude and size of each year, allowing him to run across the river and gallop in just a few decades. Although the number of lives is not long, but the fate is uncertain, the wealth resonates with the country, and the fate is the same as the national fortune.
In the past 211 years, China has undergone major changes unprecedented in two centuries. Now, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, we are striving to dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and we are rushing thousands of miles towards Kejie. But the passage of time does not forget the predecessors, the seasons are enchanting and remember the past. Zeng Wenzheng is complex and controversial, and the reason is not his own, but the situation of the times and the limitations of the times. The road that Zeng Guofan has traveled, the wind that has blown, the water that has been waded, the heart that has been used, and the reason that has been realized, are just the most optimized paths and the most helpless choices in that context, "brother is no longer the brother of the year", "song" is no longer the "song" of the year, and the spring wind is a song of wine, talking about the geometry of life, you must have a sense of the times, a sense of substitution. Today, I am grateful for the ancestors, counting the white and yellow, seeing the wisdom of the people, the effort to approach the true meaning is endless, "history" is not "years", "historical facts" are not "scripts", more tolerance, more to take less, diversified and lively.
(3) Special victory
No matter how time flies, the four seasons will not be changed. This spring, 150 years later, the Luohan pine and other green plants in front of Zeng Guofan's tomb accompanied the Izumi couple, and the fang was as beautiful as ever.
One hundred and fifteen today, the rain in Pingtang has not stopped. At first, it was moist and rainy, and then the wind and rain were so strong that those who participated in the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Zeng Guofan's death, bathing In Ganlin, shouted that this was an accidental gift from Wen Zhenggong, rain gold oak yang, Ming Jin Rui saw.
Master Rong Zen smiled and said, This is a special victory.
Fulong Mountain under the Tongxi Temple, the old "brand", a new realm.
The Breath of The Breath builds a "special wish and a special rendezvous" here. President Sun Zengyu, the sixth president of Zeng Guofan, participated in the commemoration of this non-governmental spontaneous organization with the gratitude of "trembling" and "do not forget and do not help" handed down by his ancestors.
The agenda has its own young generation, and he and Tang Haoming are more inclined to appear as elders. Zeng Guofan research although the torch is passed on, but often have to increase the salary, this is not a "fun" field, nor is it "good hey yo" so simple, the average person can not play, can not play, but this history, this person needs this society to pay close attention to and concentrate on research, there is a rich cultural connotation and a huge "legacy" of gathering the power of civilization, so Zeng and Tang are deliberately cultivating a group of Seiko researchers and a large number of loyal fans to fill this huge and mysterious "airspace". In this way, it is very worthwhile and necessary for them to drag the sick body, to take a waddling step, and to brave the pouring rain to come to visit.
Tongxi Temple is not far from the zeng guofan cemetery, and they are dependent on each other. Raindrops connect the mind, and in the dense lines, abstract ideas are embodied into the shadows of reality.
Along the way, Zeng Lao was in his heart, and during the ceremony, Zeng Lao was silently speaking, and when communicating, Zeng Lao was talking. Nothing more than gratitude, no parting of the feeling.
He said: Zeng Guofan and the excellent traditional culture represented by him belong to Huxiang, to the nation, and even to the world. In his mind, Zeng Wenzhenggong is not only an ancestor, in a sense, but also a representative of the inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture. Promoting the culture of Zeng Guofan will make the heart stronger and stronger, and it will be more conducive to cultivating a sound spiritual world.
As a descendant of the Zeng family, Zeng Lao humbly said that learning from the ancestors and asking for advice from teachers and friends is first of all to do a good job of yourself, while influencing the family and serving the society. Only by carrying forward, practicing and inheriting the excellent national culture can we live up to our family's reputation and live without regrets.
The famous writer and scholar Tang Haoming is recognized at home and abroad as "the first person to study Zeng Guofan". Just as his research and creation are pure and elegant, every important event and celebration must be solemn and solemn, and on this day he is still dressed elegantly, and the upper and lower parts are one. Where words and deeds are, keep the surplus and keep the false, and humble themselves to self-shepherding. Even after seeing me like "Zeng Yan", his students at Mao Zedong's Academy of Letters would step forward and investigate the ceremony.
As the first to explore the way, he used his lifelong research, dedicated learning, and the professional spirit of Zeng Guofan to sort out and print Wang Chuanshan's cultural ideas to fully excavate and fully promote Zeng Guofan's cultural ideas. Faced with the "work surface" of continuing China's excellent traditional culture, he studied Zeng Guofan, became a good "construction worker", and made a "completion drawing".
He felt that our ancestors had made great contributions to human culture for thousands of years. After many difficult trade-offs, the descendants of Yanhuang are more enthusiastic and identified with Chinese culture and Chinese civilization. Zeng Guofan is a very typical representative of our culture, and his body embodies the excellent elements of traditional Chinese culture. Seeking Que, Prudent Independence, Filial Piety, and Humility are all the ideas of Zeng Guofan and the spirit of China's traditional excellent culture. Today, so many people revere Wen Zhenggong and learn from him to inherit him, not so much to Wen Zhenggong himself, but to China's excellent traditional culture. To pay tribute to him is to pay tribute to our culture. Our society is running on a very healthy and very normal track, which is the basis for us to comprehensively promote cultural self-confidence and institutional self-confidence. We should be grateful for this era and cherish this situation.
Liu Jianhai was the second "housekeeper" of Fuhoutang and the Mesozoic generation studied by Zeng Guofan. He said that with remembrance and remembrance, it is not only to pay tribute to the sages, but more importantly, to think about how to pass on the inheritance in front of the spirits of the sages. Tang Haoming, Liang Xiaojin, Zeng Zhaocai, and others laid a good foundation and paved the way for us; he called on Liu Anding, Li Runliang, Zhang Zuozhong, Zeng Qingxin, including me, and other middle-aged and young researchers, to stand on the shoulders of "everyone" and turn the traditional into modern, the classic into the popular, the academic into the masses, and the nation into the world.
As a hometowner, researcher, lecturer, and writer of Zeng Guofan, in the face of Chunhua, I also expressed my heart: I am concerned with Wenzheng and move towards the future together. Everyone's eyes were expectant, so hot, so warm. In the spring environment, I don't want to express my heart's promise.
One hundred and fifteen in this dynasty, the special victory must be and spring.
Yuan Shurong is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the China Essay Literature Association, a national first-class announcer, a member of the Plenary Committee of the Hunan Writers Association, the vice president of the Hunan Speech and Elocution Society, the deputy secretary-general of the Hunan Provincial Prose Literature Society, a researcher of the Zeng Guofan Research Association, the chairman of the Loudi Speech Artists Association, the distinguished professor of the Famous Teacher Studio of the Speech and Elocution Teaching and Research Department of Hunan Normal University, and a visiting professor of the College of Literature of Hunan University of Humanities and Science and Technology. Published a collection of essays, "Wings when there is wind", "The Heart of Fu Houtang", "The Sound of Yo Yo", and "The Boiling Peaks".