"One should be determined to be true and study hard" is a famous saying of Ruan Yuan in Qing Dynasty.

Great achievements are due to great ambitions; To achieve great success lies in hard work. It shows that success depends on ideal guidance, creative exploration and sweat irrigation.

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Ruan Yuan put the Confucian doctrine of Confucius and Mencius into practice all his life, and combined it with the concrete practice of governing the government, reaching three peaks of governing the country, studying and personality.

Ruan Yuan served as an official, built water conservancy projects, built seawalls, suppressed pirates, banned opium, set up schools, provided disaster relief, and was wise and honest. His outstanding achievements were praised and praised by Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang san huang. For example:

The old custom of drowning baby girls in Jinhua area has been repeatedly banned. At the same time, Ruan Yuan introduced a new policy with clear rewards and punishments, and established a reward fund with its own salary. Whoever gives birth to a daughter will be registered in the county school newspaper, and one or two pieces of silver will be awarded, but the money will not be cashed until it is checked and confirmed by the academic officer for one month. In fact, after a month of support, the family and the baby girl have established feelings and can't bear to drown the baby again. This moral policy has achieved very good results and is still praised by future generations.

Ruan Yuan's scholarship is rigorous and his works are abundant. He is the author of classics, primary school, history, catalogue, collation, epigraphy, local chronicles, natural calculation, calligraphy and painting, poetry and other monographs. He sorted out classics and printed books, which made great contributions to the inheritance of China culture. Throughout his life, he left the world with cultural feasts: Euphemism, Don't Hide, Classics, Annotation and Collation of Thirteen Classics, Interpretation of Qing Emperor Classics, Quantang Wen, Selected Works Series and Classroom Collection.

Ruan Yuan is a man, and his loyalty and filial piety are self-evident. His birth, support for the younger generation, tolerance and generosity to scholars are all stories that later generations relish when evaluating him. Every birthday, he always goes to a secluded place in the suburbs alone, reading monuments in boiling springs, and never takes the opportunity to amass wealth and buy people's hearts, which is rare in ancient and modern officialdom.

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