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Editor's note: In the forest of steles of time, there are always some people and things inscribed there.
They are revolutionaries, pioneers, strivers, and even more ordinary people like you and me.
But they were never born to stand there. Every step of theirs is exciting, persistent and responsible. They are like monuments and inscriptions, and they are also as readable and contemplative as books.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, the Cyberspace Office of the Hengyang Municipal Party Committee and the Hengyang Station of the RedNet jointly launched the online exhibition activity of "Hengyang Fenghua • 70 People in 70 Years", using network platforms such as Rednet and "Hengyang Release" to pay tribute to history, issue a declaration of the times, learn from the advanced, gather strength for Hengyang, and carry forward the spirit through series of reports, centralized exhibitions, online interaction, external publicity, and integrated albums.
For the provincial sub-center and cohesion, for the most beautiful prefecture-level city and struggle, carry forward the past, forge ahead, let us get close to those people, those things -
Red Network Moment reporter Jiang Nan sorted out the report
In the early 1980s, he was the responsible editor of The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan and The Complete Works of Peng Yulin. Through the editing and analysis of the manuscripts left by Zeng Guofan of up to 15 million words, reading the writings of Zeng Guofan's contemporaries and a large number of historical and wild history materials, he had a relatively comprehensive understanding of Zeng Guofan, a controversial figure in modern Chinese history, and believed that Zeng Guofan was neither a sage nor a sinner of eternity, but a tragic historical figure in modern Chinese history.
While spending 11 years compiling, correcting, and publishing the 15 million-word, 30-volume Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, he conceived and wrote a three-volume historical novel Zeng Guofan. Zeng Guofan was reprinted 23 times, with a total print run of millions of copies, and was also printed and published in Taiwan. At the same time, he is also the author of long historical novels such as "Peng Yulin", "Yang Du", and "Zhang Zhidong".
He is Tang Haoming, a famous writer and honorary chairman of the Hunan Writers Association.
Tang Haoming is a member of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the 6th and 7th Plenary Committee of the Chinese Writers Association, and has won honorary titles such as the National Outstanding Young and Middle-Aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions, the China Publishing Government Award, and the Outstanding Figure Award. He has won the first and second Yao Xueyan Long Historical Novel Award, the National Book Award, and the "Five One Project" Award of the Central Propaganda Department.
The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan. (Image source: Baidu)
In 1946, Tang Haoming was born in Jinxi Town, Hengyang County, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, the father of Tang Zhenchu, a confidential secretary of Chiang Kai-shek, and his mother Wang Dehui, the first woman in Hengyang city to receive a teacher education. When his parents retreated to Taiwan with the Kuomintang when he was 2 years old, tang Haoming's three brothers were entrusted to his uncle for support, and then, under the compulsion, Tang Haoming was adopted by a barber in Hengyang.
Despite the ups and downs of life, books have built a wonderful fate, spanning time and space and achieving each other. Tang Haoming's hometown is only 15 miles away from Zeng Guofan's hometown. "The hardest days of my life, I spent reading books. Zeng Guofan gave me a lot of strength. Tang Haoming said that Zeng Guofan was born as a farmer, but he broke into the core power layer of the country with his own strength. He was a scholar, but he was able to found the Xiang Army, pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and rewrite history. Self-cultivation, family unity, governance of the country, and peace in the world, he is the most typical representative of Chinese intellectuals.
Tang Haoming was very happy to meet such a friend, they met ideologically, and seemed to be a "cross-generation confidant" who traveled through historical time and space.
After graduating from the Graduate School of Central China Normal University in 1982, Tang Haoming joined The Yuelu Book Club as the responsible editor of the Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, and he went deeper into the world of Zeng Guofan.
At the age of 40, he made a decision: to write a long historical novel based on Zeng Guofan and restore a vivid and complete Zeng Guofan. At that time, there was no novel about Zeng Guofan in the world.
After making this wish, his life entered two lines. During the day, he was the editor of the Yuelu Book Club, editing the complete works of Zeng Guofan; at night, he was a writer who wrote the novel "Zeng Guofan".
He resigned resolutely as deputy editor-in-chief and wrote until one or two o'clock in the morning. There are no weekends, no holidays, no socializing, and even in my sleep, I often shuttle through that historical jungle. He often had a sense of urgency about time.
"When studying history, you can't be 'too clever,' you can only retreat to stupid people." Tang Haoming read more than 15 million words of original materials word for word, and did his best to find the descendants of Zeng Guofan and travel through all the "footprints of Zeng Guofan" that he could find.
Many details of history grew in his mind, gradually coming alive and reviving, taking him into the hidden worlds that were not known.
In November 1990, the first part of "Zeng Guofan" was published under the title of "Blood Sacrifice".
For a while Luoyang paper is expensive. The hunan literary and art publishing house was bustling with traffic at the entrance, all of whom came to buy books and ask for books, and there was also a saying that "politicians should read Zeng Guofan, and businessmen should read Hu Xueyan." Tang Haoming was not quite sure how many copies had been sold, "if you count the genuine version, four or five million copies may be there."
The American "North American Daily" commented: "Its publication marks a breakthrough in the Chinese ideology, and its importance is completely comparable to china's launch of a satellite." The book also won the Yao Xueyan Long Historical Fiction Award in China, and entered the top 100 Chinese novels in the 20th century.
After that, Tang Haoming created "Yang Du" and "Zhang Zhidong", which were called "Late Qing Trilogy" together with "Zeng Guofan", outlining the broadest social scene in modern China. In the late Qing Dynasty, when Hunan celebrities were born and shined, Yang Du had the verse "If the Fruits of the Chinese Nation die, unless the People of Hunan die". Hengyang, the hometown of wang Fuzhi, a famous thinker who is considered to be an important source of modern Huxiang culture, is the place where Tang Haoming was born and grew up, and the Huxiang spirit of "worrying about the world and daring to be the first" has invisibly and profoundly influenced him.
After writing the late Qing Trilogy, he announced that he would no longer write other novels, but concentrate on writing the "Commentary on Zeng Guofan Series".
Tang Haoming, who has his hometown of Hengyang in his heart, also returned to his hometown with his brother Tang Yiming to give a lecture in 2013, and said in his hometown that he would inherit his father's legacy, continue to run the "Song Liang" scholarship, and sponsor the students with excellent results in his hometown to complete their studies.
(Recommended by: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports, video, image source: Yuelu Book Club)