Zeng Guofan s Enlightenment Zeng Shiqiang

Today I started to read Zeng Shiqiang's "Zeng Guofan's Revelation", why did you choose this one, first, Zeng Shiqiang is a master of Chinese culture, and I have heard his "Wisdom of the Book of Changes" before, according to reports, "Zeng Guofan's Revelation" has many answers through the principles of the Book of Changes, so I am very curious. Ertong Pei came to Zeng Guofan is also very attractive to me, compared with Confucius and Wang Yangming, Zeng Guofan is not that kind of genius type, and even records mediocre qualifications.

When people are born, they are all dry hexagrams and dragons, but as long as one hexagram changes, the whole hexagram will be different. We know that Zeng Guofan's life is actually involved in many factors, and he is actually easy to go on the slope, but he doesn't. So how did he make his life so successful?

This is something we can really learn from.

Zeng Guofan's life curve, he began to go down after reaching a peak at the age of 30 and 41, and it was tortuous, starting to go up again at the age of 50, and finally died at the age of 62. Life is a curve, and everyone goes through all kinds of twists and turns in the middle, and finally completes their life.

Zeng Guofan has endured all the hardships for ten years, and he can't die, he can't live. From the age of 41 to the age of 50, this bureau was the most difficult and painful period of his life, but it was also the most successful and fortunate period of his life. One can change one's destiny.

But remember: you can only change it yourself, and no one else can change it. The change of mind, the change of behavior, is completely your own behavior, and others will not be able to help you.

From the Book of Changes, we can see that Zeng Guofan's life was changed by himself, from the Qiangua to the Jian hexagram, and finally changed to the Heng hexagram.

Zeng Guofan's ups and downs in his life have many unknown details: he has suffered five major setbacks in his life; Elect scholars, lead mountain farmers, form hard villages, and fight dumb battles; entanglement and friendship with Zuo Zongtang; lifetime income and expenses; How to look at Feng Shui, physiognomy, fortune-telling and destiny, etc.

This book shows us a clumsy, diligent, pragmatic, and self-disciplined "Wen Zhenggong" Zeng Guofan, a profession with contradictions, struggles, and deep embedded in the core of the system. Through Zeng Guofan, readers can get a glimpse of the subtle and complex "unspoken rules" of traditional Chinese officialdom and the unique philosophy of survival with Chinese characteristics.

Zhang Hongjie, Ph.D. in History from Fudan University, Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University, currently works at the School of History, Renmin University of Chinese. He is the author of "The Front and Side of Zeng Guofan", "The Seven Faces of the Ming Dynasty", "A Brief Reading of Chinese History", etc. He once lectured on "Success or Failure on Qianlong" in "Bailing Forum".

Chief writer of the large-scale documentary "Eight Hundred Years of Chu State".

Zeng Guofan finally realized that those who acted too rigid seemed to be strong on the surface, but in fact they were weak. The real strong people in this land are the ones who seem weak and retreat on the surface. The so-called "the softest in the world, the strongest in the world".

Therefore, Jiang Hai can be the king of a hundred valleys, and he can do it with his goodness." The so-called "big soft is not soft, but rigid without rigidity".

The age of 30 was the most important watershed in Tsang's life. The greatest significance of Zeng Guofan to future generations is that he proved with his own practice that a Chinese person can become a superman by "cultivating change".

In his personal life, there is only one thing that Zeng Guofan is willing to spend money on, and that is to buy books. In the letter to Zeng Qi Wu Ji Ze, the next sentence that followed "Yu will not accumulate money in the future to leave it to his children and grandchildren" is "Only the book is still Si Maier".

The distinctive "clumsy" spirit has made Zeng Guofan's vigorous, open, and all-encompassing. The realistic way of thinking keeps his thinking flowing, sharp, and positive.