Xianfeng two years (1852), sixteen years old, Shuntianfu altogether, Tongzhi two years (1863), twenty-seven years old, the third top flower explorer. He was awarded a bachelor's degree in editing and editing of the Hanlin Academy, a bachelor's degree in cabinet, a governor of Shanxi, a governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, a governor of Huguang, a governor of Liangjiang (acting for many times, but never awarded), and a military affairs minister.
Character correlation
Zhang Zhidong studied hard and had a flexible mind since childhood. He received a strict Confucian education. He studied under several teachers, among whom Ding Yongxian and Han Chao had a great influence on him. Ding Yong was the first scholar in the eighteenth year of Daoguang, and studied in the Imperial Academy.
In the second year of Xianfeng (1852), Zhang Zhidong took the provincial examination in Shuntian and won the top prize. Tongzhi took the exam for three years (1864), and won the third place in Gongkao No.1 Middle School, and was awarded the editor by the Hanlin Academy. Later, he worked as an assistant examiner in Zhejiang after having obtained the provincial examination, and studied politics in Hubei and Sichuan.
When Zhang Zhidong was a political student in Hubei Province, he rectified the style of study, founded Jingxin Academy, and promoted and rewarded those with real talents and practical learning, which won the hearts of the people. When he was a political student in Sichuan, he founded Zunjing Academy in Chengdu, invited famous Confucian scholars to give lectures in different categories, imitated the regulations of Ruan Yuan, Hangjing Jingshe and Guangzhou Xuehaitang, and wrote two books, Xuan Yu and Bibliographic Answer, to teach readers what to read, how to read, and cultivate one's morality. These two books produced great effects at that time and later.