It is said that whether a large family can be passed on for a long time has a great relationship with family style and family training. A family without family training and no family style cannot be sustained for a long time. Take the late Qing dynasty ministers Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan, for example, taking only the talents of these two people themselves, in fact, the gap is very small; the biggest difference between the two is in the education of future generations. Zeng Guofan left behind a body full of wind and bones, while Li Hongzhang left only money.
As the saying goes: rich is not more than three. Li Hongzhang's descendants fully confirmed this sentence, and his son Li Guojie guarded the tens of thousands of taels of silver he left behind, squandering every day, and even sometimes losing hundreds of thousands of taels in a night of gambling. The descendants of Zeng Guofan are just the opposite. The departed Zeng Guofan left his descendants with only two silver two just enough to do the funeral, a mansion called "Fuhoutang" and a family letter. His descendants and grandchildren all remember the family motto of "family frugality is prosperous, people are diligent and healthy, can be diligent and thrifty, and never be poor and lowly", and they have also spent their lives practicing this sentence.
The descendants of Zeng Guofan, in a hundred years, the number of accomplished people can even reach two hundred. They are in chemistry, education, literature, art, archaeology... All have left footprints. The eldest son, Zeng Jize, was a famous diplomat of the Qing Dynasty, who fought with the Russians to return Yili and other places to help his father recover Xinjiang. The second son, Zeng Jihong, was a great mathematician whose knowledge was admirable. Although Zeng Jihong died young, his wife Guo Yun single-mindedly led by example and taught the Zeng family to the children.
Guo Yun (郭筠), courtesy name Fang, was born into a famous family and was a famous female poet in modern times. Because of its book name "Yifangguan", it was once passed down as the "Yifangguan Poetry Manuscript". Influenced by his mother, the eldest son, Zeng Guangjun, was also proficient in poetry, and passed on to future generations with the "Yuxi Body". Guo Yun was good at teaching her younger generations, and after the eldest granddaughter Zeng Baosun was born, she was raised under her knees to receive instruction. Zeng Baosun's life can also be described as legendary. She never married in her life, and ran a school with her cousin Zeng Yunong, who had never married in her life, and raised thousands of students.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > grew freely from an early age and had the privilege of "going out"</h1>
Zeng Baosun once recalled: "There were three things that affected my life, enabling me to do whatever I wanted and not be tied down in any way. "These three things are: first, not to wrap her feet in the era when all women are wrapped, so that she does not have to freeze her life in the back house; second, she is not married in the era of arranged marriage; third, supporting her to study abroad, so that she has a different vision and insight.
Guo Yun has a long-term vision, and when Zeng Baosun reaches the age of foot binding, he teaches everyone in the family not to care about other people's opinions, so that everyone can take a long-term view and do not let Zeng Baosun wrap his feet again. After Zeng Baosun reached the age of four, she began to enter the family school Fuhou Hall to study, she once said that the good memories of her childhood came from the days of reading with the children of the Zeng family, and it was these short years of "learning together" that made each of them engrave the word "family" in their hearts. Throughout my life, I have never forgotten my brothers and brothers and supported each other.
Zeng Baosun loved to read since he was a child, and whenever he had time every day, he would go to his grandmother's "Yifang Hall" to read books. As the life's work of Guo Yun and her husband Zeng Jihong, the "Yifang Hall" contains nearly 20,000 books including scriptures, histories, sub-collections, astronomy, and arithmetic. Thanks to these books, Zeng Baosun can swim in the sea of books and enhance his knowledge.
At the age of 14, Zeng Baosun, with the support of his family, left his hometown to study at the Shanghai Girls' School. Zeng Baosun was already knowledgeable and was soon admitted to the Hangzhou Provincial Female Teacher. And after a year of hard work, she successfully entered a church school in the United Kingdom to continue her studies. Tsang was fortunate that she did not encounter any opposition from her family going abroad, and even met her life mentor, Ms. Ba Luyi, during her studies at this school (Fung Girls' High School).
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > studying abroad allows her to find her life pursuits</h1>
Zeng Baosun studied well and had good character, and was deeply loved by Ms. Ba Luyi. He is even often called by Ms. Baluyi as her most proud student. During his studies in the United Kingdom, he first entered the Wazin Private School Auditorium School to concentrate on learning English, and then entered the Montenegro Senior Girls' High School to study science in order to achieve the ideal of science and save the country. Later, he entered the University of London with excellent grades and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree. But this is not the end of a person who pursues self-improvement.
During his studies at the University of London, Zeng Baosun often met with his cousin Zeng Yunong, who was also at the same school. She later entered cambridge to study biology. During this time, she finally found the ideal she could pursue with her life - to return to China to run education. She informed her cousin of her idea, and received the approval and support of Zeng Yunong, and the two made a vow that they would return to China to run the school after completing their studies.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > dedicate all of their energy to education after returning home</h1>
Two years later, Zeng Baosun and Zeng Yunong completed their studies and decided to answer China as soon as possible. The two quickly returned home for two main reasons. First, because when their grandmother sent them abroad, they had made a promise that "they would return to China after completing their studies". Although the grandmother Guo Yun had passed away at that time, the two never forgot the promise they made at that time; second, because of their ideals and pursuits. Hearing that the two were about to return to China, Ms. Baluyi followed closely despite her advanced age. The three people who returned to China together refused the request to teach at some well-known schools and returned directly to Changsha, Hunan.
After returning to Changsha, the three began to prepare for a new school, Yifang Women's College. Zeng Baosun and his cousin have respected Guo Yun since childhood, and in order to commemorate their grandmother, the two used the word "Yifang" as the name of the school, and appointed themselves as principals to carry out various affairs of the school. In the thirty-eight years since its establishment, Yifang Girls' School has stopped and repeatedly due to the turbulence of the times, and has cultivated nearly a thousand outstanding students intermittently.
During zeng baosun's tenure as principal, he continued to take virtue education as the guiding concept, teaching students to behave and do things, and to put morality first. The school has a university, a middle school and an attached primary school, and the school has a good atmosphere. All on-campus premises, whether on the door of the school, on the door of the dormitory, or even on the cabinet of the dormitory, do not need to be locked.
The school library has never had a management staff, and students can register to borrow books on their own. When it comes to school exams, teachers don't even have to proctor, and no student does anything to look left or cheat. During the school, she personally taught biology and English classes to students, and her cousin Zeng Asked Nong, the director of academic affairs, was also a teacher of arithmetic and physics and chemistry.
Later, because of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the two had to go to Hong Kong for refuge, and later arrived in Taiwan. Until his death, Zeng Baosun and Zeng Yunong were both personally married. While living in Taiwan, Zeng also served as president of Tunghai University. Although Zeng Baosun stopped teaching in the last years of her life, her contributions to education and the talents she cultivated for the motherland are the best proof of her as an educator.
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