I learned more about Zeng Guofan from Zhang Hongjie's Biography of Zeng Guofan.

Why did you choose this book?

First, it was recommended by the principal. Second, this book suits me.

I started a real-life storytelling on WeChat reading. After listening to Liu Xiaobo's explanation of this book, I got an overall understanding of its context.

He said that Zeng Guofan was both familiar and unfamiliar to everyone, because he appeared many times in the modern history of China, such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Westernization Movement.

Strange because Zeng Guofan is almost blank in the eyes of many people except his name.

Fortunately, there is someone who can help us fill this gap. He began to study Zeng Guofan 20 years ago. His doctoral and postdoctoral theses are Zeng Guofan's, and he is Zhang Hongjie. He graduated from Fudan University with a doctorate, studied under Ge, a famous scholar, and later entered the history department of Tsinghua University as a postdoctoral fellow.

Now I work in the Department of Qing History in Tsinghua University.

Liu Xiaobo's series of stories about Zhang Hongwen's identity make us see Zhang Hongwen's professionalism and dedication to Zeng Guofan in history, which further increases our goodwill and expectation for this book.

Then he went on to say that the feature of this book is to focus on Zeng Guofan's personal mental journey, rather than studying and restoring his life and events.

The mental journey of a person, especially a great and successful person, is the focus that I want to know and learn most.

I used to see the story about Zeng Guofan in the explosion and everyone praised him.

However, the short and pithy net texts are all written by grasping a point, which can't let me see the complete Zeng Guofan. I prefer reading books, especially biographies, to reading online articles. Reading can help me understand a character systematically and completely.

Zhang Hongjie said in the preface, why is he so interested in Zeng Guofan, because.

"First, for China, a cultural body, Zeng Guofan's greater significance is his Power of China. Zeng Guofan fully demonstrated the positive value of traditional culture and proved that China culture is dynamic, flexible and inclusive. "

"Zeng Guofan is an increasingly powerful figure. Starting from Zeng Guofan, we can have a deeper understanding of China's traditional ideological history and understand the political history and social history of the late Qing Dynasty. "

This is from a broad and lofty perspective, from a big perspective, from society, from the whole traditional culture, a person's thoughts, words and deeds represent a culture.

Second, "from the perspective of personal spiritual growth, Zeng Guofan can also provide us with strength. Zeng Guofan's life started from a very low point and reached a very high level.

Zeng Guofan's IQ is normal, and a scholar took the exam seven times. Physical endowment is very poor, and life is accompanied by many serious diseases.

Born in an ordinary family, my ancestors have been ordinary people for hundreds of years.

When I was young, I still had many shortcomings in my personality, such as poor self-management ability. Through personal unremitting efforts, he has completed the transformation of being thoroughly remoulded and extraordinary, and reached the three immortal realms of merit and sentence. This process is very enlightening. "

As an ordinary person, we may not understand a person from a big perspective, but we can learn Zeng Guofan's excellent character from the perspective of personal growth and turn it into our own use.

The headmaster said, "Why should the biography of Zeng Guofan be the first book we read in our writing camp?" ?

Because of Zeng Guofan's direction in dealing with people, the values he holds are exactly what we should adhere to as writers. "

It can be seen that the headmaster asked us to read Zeng Guofan's biography in order to let us know what Zeng Guofan was like, how to succeed and how to write. Let's learn from Zeng Guofan's spirit, not just read a book or several books and write an article.

In the process of reading this book, I constantly compare the reading guidance and explanation of the principal, and see how the principal can connect with reality from ancient times and how to dig out experiences, writing and new media texts that can be used in modern times from strange and distant events.

When reading a strange book is a little difficult, it is helpful for us to digest and absorb knowledge by listening to and reading more explanations from celebrities and experts.

Success belongs to those who keep running. Come on!