In early June 2003, a young couple visited Zeng Guofan's former residence in Zifeng Village, Shatang Township, the county. With a foreign accent, Ms. Peng claimed that a family named Yang in Tianhua Village, Qingshan Town, Changsha County had a plaque recording Zeng Guofan's life story, not far from Guluo County where her family was located.
In our opinion, the so-called plaque recording life stories is not common, but Peng's location and Tibetan language are very specific, and it is likely to be a plaque related to Zeng Guofan. We immediately asked him to leave his contact number, let him contact her family again, and decided to find out the truth.
On July 1 day, Peng and I drove to Yang's home. Upon inspection, it is indeed a plaque inscribed by Zeng Guofan, with a length of 4.35 meters and a width of 1.7 meters.
The right vertical edition of Autumn Moon in Ding Mao's Six Years of Tongzhi has the small character 12, and the right to "Du You" has four large characters nearly 2 feet square. The left paragraph is divided into four volumes: "Give a Jinshi origin, give a doctor Guanglu, an imperial envoy, a prince of Taibao, a university student in Tijen Pavilion, and an imperial envoy. There are two seals, one is "Zeng Guofan Seal" and the other is "Yizhang".
The frame is symmetrically carved with dragons, vines and other patterns, the plaque is black, and the words and patterns are gold, which is quite imposing.