How to educate children? In the history of China, many bureaucratic families, no matter how prosperous, did not last three generations, but produced talents. Not only did Zeng Guofan's own son become a talent, but his great-grandchildren also included a talented poet like Zeng Guangjun, a world-famous chemist like Zeng Zhaolun, and influential educators and scholars like Zeng Baosun and Yuenong Zeng. & gt Zeng Guofan has suffered from snacks for decades and knows that his reputation, status and family business are hard-won. He witnessed the second generation of senior officials' families, who either ate and drank, idled, or squandered, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and finally lost all their possessions, which made him deeply worried. Therefore, he educates children, starting with being a man. Zeng Guofan was one of the most important figures in the officialdom in the late Qing Dynasty, but he never bullied others by force, let alone allowed his children to bully others and be a prodigal son. Kid. & gt He knows that the children of senior officials are the easiest to be extravagant and extravagant, and the word "extravagant and extravagant" is "the way to destroy the family" and "the source of all evil", and "extravagant and extravagant, so that no evil is done", so he always warns his sons and nephews to beware of extravagant and extravagant. Men in the family have to walk when they go out, employees are not allowed to sit in sedan chairs and ride horses, while sisters-in-law, daughters and daughters-in-law, old and young, all spin and weave, and raise fish and pigs. Even his wife has to take part in labor and set an example for the whole family. Zeng Guofan always warned his son not to act in the name of his father, but to lead an honest and clean life. & gt In the second year of Tongzhi (1863), Ceng Jize and his family took a boat to his father's place in Jinling Province, and Zeng Guofan wrote to Ji Ze, warning him not to hang Wei flags along the way and not to disturb the local governor, so as to "entertain guests". In July of the third year of Tongzhi, Ceng Jize went to Changsha for imperial examination, and Zeng Guofan warned him not to dredge with the examiner. "Don't send a note, you must know your self-esteem from the beginning." & gt Zeng Guofan opposed buying land and houses and saving money for future generations. He thinks that "it is shameful to be an official and get rich", and it is even more "shameful and hateful" to leave the gold and silver obtained by the official to future generations! If children and grandchildren are talented, they can stand on their own feet without their parents' inheritance. If he is a black sheep, give him an extra penny and he will do it again. Therefore, Zeng Guofan vowed to "never leave money to future generations." & gt Zeng Guofan, who grew up in the countryside, regarded "diligence" as the first meaning of life. When he was an official in Beijing, he bought Chinese cabbage and eggplant seeds from the north many times and sent them back, and told his family about the planting techniques. In order not to let the sons and nephews have ten thousand? As a gentleman's style, his sons and nephews have been asked to work and study many times by family letters, and even these things "must be done one by one." & gt Zeng Guofan once said, "We don't want to be rich for all generations, but we want to be talented for all generations." The "scholar" he pursues is not a traditional official who studies and is an official, but a gentleman who can understand things and have both ability and political integrity. It is under the guidance of this family education principle and method that Zeng Guofan's family education has achieved great success, and a large number of talents have been produced in Zeng's family. At the same time, Zeng Guofan's family education thought is constantly admired and used for reference. & gt