"Supporting two poor bones" means that the spine should be supported no matter what the situation is.
This is a self-titled couplet by Zeng Guofan, an important official of the Qing Dynasty.
Zeng Guofan's third strategy in Pavilion Jing Li is: "In current affairs, I say we should erect our bones and try our best to support them. I didn't sleep in the middle of the night, because I made a cloud:' Feed a group of spring, support two poor bones' and use my own police. "
The first part vividly expounds the supreme way of being "soft" and "inner saint" in doing things. Spring is the season when everything recovers and is full of vitality. It is soft and inclusive. Therefore, people should be harmonious and tolerant, and they should be able to improvise. Only by feeding this group of "spring" can we be invincible forever.
The bottom line shows that people should not be just "soft" and "inner saint", but rather "rigid" and "outer king". For the cause, we should not blindly compromise and pursue perfection, but stand erect, seek a way out in difficulties and seek straightness in hard struggle.
This pair of couplets explains Zeng Guofan's way of being an official and his philosophy of life: combining rigidity with softness, giving consideration to Fiona Fang, being sage inside and being king outside.
Extended data
Zeng Guofan believes that it is impossible for a person to exhaust all his potential and enjoy all his advantages. He should give up his fame, think in prosperity, combine rigidity with softness, and govern by doing nothing. A hundred feet of pole head, further; Lack itself is perfection.
He said so and did the same. Zeng Guofan also felt this danger when he suppressed the Taiping Army and his fame and fortune were so prominent that Emperor Xianfeng felt that his strength was overwhelming and he was afraid. He knew that if he continued to be rigid, I was afraid that, as the fortune teller said, he would die after conquering Jinling.
So, he immediately borrowed the opportunity to go home to see his father's funeral, took his two younger brothers, both important generals of the Xiang army, resigned from all military posts and returned to his hometown in Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province. He wants to show the court that Zeng Guofan is loyal to the court and will not have any ambitions.
This hasty retreat obviously won the trust of the Qing court, and in the second year, it was named the minister of war by the court. After mastering the military real power of the whole country and suppressing the victory of Taiping Army, he remained cautious.
After entering Beijing, he took back part of his power, fearing that it would overwhelm the Lord; Afraid of suspicion caused by too many Xiang troops, he dismissed 40 thousand Xiang troops; Fearing that the Qing court doubted Nanjing's defense, it built a flag camp, demanding that the flag soldiers be stationed in Nanjing and pay their salaries in full.
Zeng Guofan's practice won the approval of the imperial court and the trust of the Qing court. The Qing court also named him Prince Taibao, with eyes and feathers, and gave him a first-class marquis, and his descendants attacked each other. At this point, Zeng Guofan felt honored for a while.
Zeng Guofan's character of combining rigidity with softness and Fiona Fang's character of combining rigidity with softness are not innate, but tempered in reading practice. As he himself said, "it is difficult to change a person's temperament because of birth." Only reading can change. "
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