Zeng Guofan, pronounced as zē ng guó fā n (181year165438+1October 26th-1March 8721.
Daoguang Jinshi, a former bachelor of cabinet, was an official to assistant minister in the last years of Daoguang. He was good at talking about "morality" and "benevolence and righteousness" and praised Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom marched into Hunan, it was appointed as the deputy minister of Yingyong, and held Yingyong in Hunan. Later, a landlord armed group with the size of a regular army was formed-Xiang Army. Xianfeng released Begging for Guangdong Bandits in four years.
Leading the Xiang army to fight in the province to recover lost territory for the Qing government. In order to strengthen the suppression force, he advocated introducing advanced western technology, establishing Anqing Inner Ordnance Institute and manufacturing new guns. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), he served as the governor of the two rivers and was supervised by an imperial envoy. The following year, Anqing was captured and ordered to govern the military affairs of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces.
Three years of Tongzhi (1864) captured Tianjing. The following year, he was ordered to go north to suppress the Nianjun uprising. In the seventh year of Tongzhi (1868), he was transferred to the governor of Zhili. In the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), when dealing with the religious plan in Tianjin, he fawned on foreigners and the disabled, was condemned by public opinion, returned to China to be the governor of the two rivers, and died in Nanjing.
Zeng Guofan's literary realm
Zeng Guofan inherited the independent style of Tongcheng School Fang Bao and Yao Nai, and founded the "Xiangxiang School" in the late Qing Dynasty, which is an important representative of Huxiang culture. In poetry, he learned from others, but admired Huang Tingjian, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. According to Shishan's Poems Looking at the Clouds, "Zeng Guofan is fond of yellow poems, and his poems are yellow, and his fashion has changed. In the north and south of the river, the price of yellow poems is heavy, and the value is thousands. "
He talks about ancient Chinese, speaks in a sonorous tone, and tries his best with inexhaustible packages; Ancient prose is profound and magnificent, which can convey the breath of Han Fu, so it has a magnificent artistic conception and can get rid of the disadvantages of Tongcheng School, which is praised by future generations. The imperial clan of the Zeng family is Tongcheng, but it has changed and developed. As a text model, it has compiled a hundred miscellaneous notes on classics and history, which is not controlled by Tongcheng and is known as the Xiangxiang School in the world.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Zeng Guofan