The author of the book "Pioneer: Zhang Xiao" has a comprehensive and profound understanding of Nantong and Zhang Xiao, and has a special emotion, which makes the author have a deeper understanding of the practical significance of studying Zhang Xiao. Nantong is a city that carries his main career and achievements in life, and the author's life and career experience make his perspective and experience of Zhang Jian's research different from other experts in Zhang Xiao's research field.
Zhang Xiao's life is ordinary and great, and zhang Xiao in this book is also alive rather than facial, we can read in the book Zhang Xiao's sense of insignificance, as well as his struggle against fate, and read a little excitement or a little confusion when he makes different choices at different stages of life.
In a certain sense, any historical figure may be born with some talent, but his greatness is not innate. What a person can do in his life, to what extent he can achieve, and how much influence he can have are mostly closely related to various factors such as the family environment in which he is born, his historical background, his personality characteristics, and his life experiences due to fate.
When we look back on the magnificent life of a historical figure from the perspective of an ordinary person, we are closer to this historical figure.
In the historical encounter, Zhang Xiao completed his historical mission, some of which were successful, and some of which ended in failure - he worked hard all his life, pursued his ideals, had successes and failures, and this is not the norm in the life of an ordinary person?
In that era of heavy Confucianism and light business, he resolutely threw himself into industry to save the country with the dignity of the emperor, which was a very stupid choice in the social values of that time, after all, learning and excellence was the only right way at that time. And this "stupidity" has also achieved Zhang Xiao's greatness.
In front of the long lens of history, Nantong Zhuangyuan Zhang Jian presents us with a back shadow of what a great shore. With the spirit and practice of a doer, Zhang Jian took Nantong as a place to realize his political ideals and showed his ambitions: at that time, Nantong was just a small city dominated by agriculture, and had no sense of existence in the whole country, but Zhang Xiao miraculously created a precedent in many fields in Nantong and created many national firsts. Under his unremitting efforts, a former projectile town became a model city at that time, and even entered the world's vision, creating the great cause of "the first city in modern China" (Wu Liangyong), which has a far-reaching influence and continues to this day.
In an era when the old and the new alternate, Zhang Jian used his life's hard work to practice the Confucian ideology of the pursuit of life and political ideals of ruling the country and the world, and struggled for this all his life without complaint or regret.
Zhang Jian burned out his entire life, and with a magnificent posture of almost a moth to put out the fire, he resolutely sacrificed his ordinary body to the era of internal and external troubles. In the long history of the Chinese nation, Zhang Xiao is not an isolated case, and it is precisely because the Chinese nation, no matter how difficult the era, there are a group of people like Zhang Xiao that our country and nation, no matter how many hardships and disasters they have been burdened with, cannot be defeated, overwhelmed, and the backbone is always continuous. They are all the backbone of the Chinese nation.
The book "Pioneer: Zhang Xiao", while reviewing Zhang Xiao's life path, also presents Zhang Xiao's mental journey and thoughts, words and deeds when creating great achievements.
Zhang Xiao's life, extremely rich experience, through many historical stages, with many core figures who influenced the political situation at that time, deeply involved in many major historical events, with a strong particularity of the times and industry representatives, whether it is his ideological and spiritual field, or in his practice process of various experience summaries, as well as the impact on future generations, at present still has a strong practical significance.
Editor-in-charge: Yang Xiaojun