Zeng Guofan's Eight Golden Sentences

Zeng Guofan's eight golden sentences:

1, every major event is calm.

2. The past, such as yesterday's death; In the future, such as today's birth.

3, only ask the cultivation, don't ask the harvest.

4. Yang is good at court and the rules are too private.

5. The hero knocked out his teeth and swallowed blood.

6, what's going on in the world, self-motivated, forcing half of them to be forced out.

7. First, be ambitious; second, be knowledgeable; third, be persistent.

8. It is difficult to change a person's temperament because of life. Only reading can change his temperament.

Zeng Guofan (18 1 1 year165438+1October 26th-1March 872 12), whose first name was Zicheng, whose real name was Bohan. China was a statesman, strategist, philosopher, writer, calligrapher, founder and commander-in-chief of Xiang Army in the late Qing Dynasty.

The rise of Zeng Guofan had a far-reaching impact on the politics, military affairs, culture and economy of the Qing Dynasty. At Zeng Guofan's initiative, he built the first ship in China, founded the first ordnance school, printed and translated the first batch of western language books, and arranged the first batch of students studying in the United States. It can be said that Zeng Guofan was the pioneer of China's modernization. Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi were called "Zeng Hu", while Li Hongzhang, Zuo and Zhang Zhidong were called "four famous ministers of ZTE in the late Qing Dynasty". Official to the governor of Liangjiang, the governor of Zhili, the university student of Wuyingdian, the first-class Yi, posthumous title "Zheng Wen", later called "Ceng Wenzheng".