Newcomers, please take care of them ~
Starting today, we will start reading Zeng Guofan by Don Hao Ming.
Briefly introduce:
Tang Zeng Guofan is a long historical novel that won the first Yao Long Historical Novel Award. The book is divided into three parts: blood sacrifice, wild burning and black rain. It tells a series of events from Zeng Guofan's establishment of Xiang army, suppression of the kingdom of heaven to the abolition of Xiang army and the handling of Tianjin religious plans, and depicts a complex image with multiple personalities and merits. Friends who are interested in historical novels can also look at Yang Du and Zhang Zhidong of Tang Dynasty.
(Of course, if you don't like it, you can also read the Biography of Zeng Guofan or the Biography of Zeng Guofan later. These books pay more attention to historical facts and are easy to understand. )
If you are not interested in Zeng Guofan at all, forget it.
Anyway, the purpose of writing this article is not only to briefly introduce this book, but also to show everyone Zeng Guofan's life.
Some friends here may ask, "Ah, suddenly ~ why do you want to introduce your life?" Aren't you idle? "
In fact, if you don't understand, too.
But ~
Because this is a novel after all, there are always some fictional contents, so understanding historical facts will help us to have a comprehensive understanding of Zeng Guofan.
Zeng Guofan (18 1 1 year 1 month 2 1 day-1March 872 12) was originally named kuanyi, and the word Zicheng was also named Guo Fan, whose real name was Guo Fan. China was a strategist, philosopher, politician, writer and calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty. He was the founder and commander-in-chief of the Xiang Army, one of the "famous ministers of Zhongxing" and the founder of the "Xiangxiang School" of prose in the late Qing Dynasty. Official to the Governor of Liangjiang, the Governor of Zhili, the University of Wuyingdian, the first-class righteous Hou Yong.
(Of course, there are many interesting things about Zeng Guofan, which are all involved in the book, so I won't go into details here. )
Perhaps everyone's impression of Zeng Guofan mainly comes from the junior middle school history textbook, where Zeng Guofan organized the Xiang army to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and was one of the representatives of the Westernization School. Friends who know a little may also know Zeng Guofan's handling of the "Tianjin Teaching Plan".
In fact, these events are also an important turning point in Zeng Guofan's life. In order to realize his dream of rejuvenating the country and maintain the rule of the Qing Dynasty, he formed the Xiang Army, which became famous in the movement to suppress the kingdom of heaven. His career is booming, and he seems to be getting closer and closer to his dream of rejuvenating the country. However, from the abolition of Xiang army to the handling of Tianjin religious plans, the tomorrow that once hung high in the sky has also fallen, and his dream of rejuvenating the country has gradually been shattered.
To sum up, it really confirms the sentence that "a few words in history textbooks may be the goal of their life." Because of this, we need to know more about them and treat them as flesh and blood people, instead of staying in stereotypes about them. We should put the characters in the real historical environment and evaluate them objectively, instead of criticizing or praising them blindly. And Zeng Guofan in Tang's works just meets these points. In the author's pen, Zeng Guofan is a living, flesh-and-blood person with secular desires; The author puts the characters in the real historical environment, which makes Zeng Guofan's bitter course, persistent belief, defending tradition, brutal killing, hypocrisy and many flaws understandable.
This is why I read Zeng Guofan.
Oh, I accidentally said a lot.
Finally, talk about the plan for the next few days.
Basically, I read about 3 to 6 chapters every day, and I expect to finish it in about a week.
It's finally over ~
Everyone, remember to like it ~
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