At the same time, the daily western food made Li lose his appetite. So he asked the chef to mix the raw materials of western food with vegetables and burn them into a hodgepodge. The pungent smell made British officials salivate and asked what it was. Answer chop suey. Li motioned them to enjoy themselves, and they were full of praise. It is said that "Li Hongzhang chop suey" later appeared on the hotel menu.
This shows that every nation and country has its own cultural traditions and customs, and there is no distinction between high and low. As an envoy to China, Li Hongzhang did not grovel before the unruly imperialists, but skillfully promoted the traditional food culture of the Chinese nation. I have to say that he has a strong sense of country.
Li Hongzhang likes to collect books after he became a politician. Living in Shanghai Lilac Garden, there is a library of "Wang Yun Caotang". In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), when suppressing the uprising of Shanghai Knife Association, he often went to the library of Yu Songnian, a famous bibliophile, and gave him many rare books.
After his death, his books were inherited by Li Jingmai, and his precious edition was sold by the owner of "Hanwenyuan" bookstore in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. The rest of the books were donated by Sun Yu 1940 to the library of Aurora University, with a total of 18000 volumes.
3. In the twenty-five years of Daoguang (1845), he went to Beijing to take the exam and was educated by Zeng Guofan when he was young. Weng Xincun (Sun Zhishi), the examiner Pan and Li Hongzhang's teacher, who were born in Huizhou merchants and Suzhou aristocratic families, was edited by young Li Hongzhang, which has certain enlightenment to the formation of his world outlook of practical use.
The gentry in southern Jiangsu, headed by Pan and Weng, also gave great support to Li Hongzhang's later formation of Huai Army and his rapid rise in Jiangsu. But the most fortunate thing for Li Hongzhang is that after he failed in the first exam, he joined the team of Zeng Guofan, a Hunan university student, as a "teenager" with "B+C" (that is, 1845- 1846), and learned practical knowledge, which laid the foundation for his career and thought all his life.
4. In the summer of the 11th year of Xianfeng (186 1), the leader of Xixiang Yong ying learned that Zeng Guofan was appointed as the governor of Liangjiang, and when Li Hongzhang, an Anhui native, was in charge of confidential information in the shogunate, he recommended Zhang Shusheng, the former chief of staff of Li Wenan, to Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan, explaining the situation in Anhui and expressing his determination to defect.
I praised it after reading it, and personally instructed that "independence in Jiangbei, true ancestors were born". Due to these foundations of Yingzhou Yingyong and Li Hongzhang's various local relationships, the formation and recruitment of Huai Army went smoothly.
5. From the 1970s of 65438+2009, Li Hongzhang further expanded his westernization career. Because he flaunted "self-improvement" and then "murder for money", he founded a series of private enterprises in the main form of "official supervision and commercial office" At the same time, preparations were made for Beiyang coastal defense, with outsourcing as the main task and self-control as the supplement, and the Beiyang Navy was built in the 14th year of Guangxu (1888).
In order to cultivate talents needed for "self-improvement" and "seeking wealth", various new schools have been established and people have been sent to study in Europe and America. These westernization undertakings had a far-reaching impact on the development of modern China society.
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While commenting on Li Hongzhang's merits and demerits, people gradually noticed his calligraphy art. Through his large amount of pen and ink, we saw his extraordinary calligraphy skill. However, few people mentioned that he was a man with high cultural accomplishment and a calligrapher with deep attainments in the late Qing Dynasty.
Li Hongzhang's fan is on an irregular fan, with orderly layout and harmonious characters. Beauty jumps like a lively pearl, and the lines are measured, sparse but not chaotic. It is refreshing and pleasing to the eye, and it can be called a masterpiece of calligraphy, which shows Li Hongzhang's profound calligraphy attainments.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Hongzhang