Hunan Army's Contribution to the Prosperity of Modern Huxiang Culture (I) Song Jun's Contribution to Huxiang Culture during the Military Camp First of all, the generals of Hunan Army formed the habit of reading ancient books and writing classics in their spare time during the war, leaving a lot of works. The leadership of the Xiang Army is a group with high cultural literacy, and their daily behavior reflects strong cultural characteristics, which is called "literati point soldiers". One of the most typical representatives is Zeng Guofan, who is known as the master of modern Huxiang culture. In military camps around the country, Zeng Guofan not only read a lot of cultural classics, but also wrote a lot of written works in the Complete Works of Zeng Guofan. He also often cooperates with Li, He Wan, Wang Yun, Luo Ruhuai, Wu, Tang, Zuo, Liu Rong, Li, Guo Kuntao, Deng Fulun, Ding Chenguo and Ouyang Zhaoxiong. Too many cultural activities in military camps will inevitably have a certain impact on the military. In this regard, Zeng Guofan said: "I am in the army, and I waste my official duties with poetry." [1] Zeng Guofan's professional characteristics and personal hobbies make it impossible for him to give up the habit of reading and writing that he developed long ago, and he will not change his routine in officialdom. Under the guidance of the coach, other soldiers in the barracks have been reciting poems and compositions. For example, in Li's military camp, Li insisted on reading ancient books often. "On an empty moon, a horse stirrups shine in karaoke bars, such as joining hands with talented men and women and inheriting their voices" [2]. Although he is a civil servant with his mentor Zeng Guofan and his screen friend Deng Fulun (,), wherever he goes, his first task is to buy books at the book market, pay attention to the poems of local literati and record them; The second is to watch the cultural sites around the country and write down your feelings. His diary will become a valuable legacy of modern Huxiang culture in the future. Other Xiang officials, such as Hu Linyi, Zuo,,, Yang Zaifu, Li Xuyi, Yang Changjun, etc. , has also left famous letters, memorials, poems and other works, which can be called masterpieces. Luo Zenan and Wang Zhen, the early generals of Xiang Army, had profound attainments in Confucianism. Wherever the old Hunan battalion led by them went, local scholars were invited to teach the soldiers: learning Confucianism became a common practice in the army. People recalled: "Every night when the camp gate was closed, the sound was heard, accompanied by the sound of reading. "In the later period, Yang Changjun, the general of Xiang Army, wrote a well-known poem when praising Zuo's contribution to the development of northwest China:" The general has not yet raised the border, and Huxiang disciples are full of Tianshan Mountains. "The newly planted willow is 3,000 miles long, which attracts the spring breeze." This word can be compared with Liangzhou Ci written by Wang Zhihuan, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. Secondly, the Xiang army donated money to build hometown schools and increase local places, which greatly promoted the development of Hunan's cultural and educational undertakings in the late Qing Dynasty. Before the rise of Xiang Army, Hunan was limited as an independent province with weak economic strength. In addition to the old Yuelu Academy, Chengnan Academy, Xiangshui Academy Jingtang, Hengyang Shigu Academy, Shaoyang Ailian Academy, Daozhou Lianxi Academy and Liling Lijiang Academy, there are not many academies in other counties, and their culture and education are relatively backward. In the early years of Xianfeng, due to the destruction of the Taiping Army's stationing troops and the financial resources consumed by the army's long-term supply to the four sides, the government's funds for setting up schools were seriously insufficient, which led to the gradual decline of official schools, county schools, academies and private schools in various places. Changsha, the provincial capital, should have been a prosperous place for all counties to follow suit, but it also gradually evolved from Qian Gongxiu, the governor of Daoguang in the eighteenth year. Xianfeng two years, Guangdong bandits invaded Chu, Changsha martial law, learn to station troops, well stoves were dug, cattle and horses hooves were chewed, which was a big bad thing [3]. In order to revitalize hometown education and prosper local culture, General Xiang donated money to build academies and schools, increasing the number of places and students. In the same year, schools donated or supplemented by Hunan Xiang Army in Xi 'an included Zeng School, Binxing Hall and Academy in Xiangxiang, Yiyang Proverbs Academy donated by Hu Linyi, Shantang donated by Li Hezhang, Academy in Changsha, Dongshan Academy in Youxian, Yutan Academy in Ningxiang and Langjiang Academy in Changde. At the same time, considering the hard work of the Xiang army in the front line and the donation of military salaries, the Qing government rewarded Hunan with corresponding school places, and the school places in Hunan increased rapidly. In the third year of Xianfeng, Li, the general of Xiang army, was allowed to increase the number of literary and military students in the county by three. In 78 years of Xianfeng, Li once again asked his soldiers to donate the arrears of 102,000 yuan, requesting the court to increase10 civil and military places in Pingjiang County, and donated 52,000 silver to increase 5 civil and military places in Yuezhou County, all of which were approved. Subsequently, Xiang leaders such as Li, Li Xuyi, Zhang, Zhao Yuban and Xiao Fusi donated100000 yuan. So are ten other counties, including Changsha, Hua Shan, Xiangyin, Liuyang, Xiangtan, Crocodile Mausoleum and Longyang. According to statistics, from the early years of Xianfeng to 1978. The number of students in Hunan increased by military donations reached more than 800, and some freshmen were not counted. This kind of kindness of Xiang Army has increased the number of candidates in Hunan, and the number of people taking the science test in the pilot project has risen rapidly, and Hunan has gradually become a major cultural province. The general shogunate became a literati institution. Thirdly, the Hunan army set up a book editing bureau, interviewed the loyalty bureau, compiled the bibliography of the school magazine and wrote a praise record, which enriched the achievements of modern Huxiang culture. In order to prevent the war from destroying China's ancient excellent cultural heritage and continue Chinese traditional culture, Zeng Guofan, the founder of Xiang Army, set up Anqing Bookstore, Jinling Bookstore and other cultural institutions in Hangying, Anhui Province, and Nanjing, where the governor of Liangjiang was stationed, and organized the curtain collectors to collect, proofread and compile various ancient books and periodicals, such as Wang Chuanshan's suicide note, Wang Chuanshan's series, records of loyalty and righteousness in Liangjiang, 21 kinds of arithmetic and geometric manuscripts. In the same year, Hu Linyi, commander-in-chief of Xiang Army, then Governor of Hubei Province, also invited Wang Yun, Ding, Xing Gaokui, Yao Shaochong, Wang Shiduo, Hu,,,, and Cheng Linshou to write and publish the school journals Reading the History of Soldiers, Praising Hubei Loyalty and Righteousness, and Unified Map of China and Foreign Countries in Qing Dynasty. Some cultural celebrities gathered under the command of the commander-in-chief of Xiang army. As the Xiang army went out of the province and fought all over the country, the number of people killed in the battlefield increased day by day. In order to soothe the loyal soul and maintain local customs, Xiang generals set up loyalty bureaus and loyalty bureaus in Jiangnan provinces, and clerks served in them. On the one hand, they organized and sent clerks to investigate and interview martyrs in counties and townships, and reported them to the court respectively after recording them to discuss preferential treatment and pensions. On the other hand, local governments are required to cooperate closely, display all the oracles, or provide detailed props by the company, or report by the government, the Ministry, the state and the county, or report by the families of the victims, and then collect them in the Governor's Office, where they can play the imperial court at any time, and please build the General's Temple and General's Square. For those soldiers who died tragically, a special shrine can also be built to make them go down in history. Staff of Xiang Army, Hunan literati Luo Ruhuai, Wu, Fang Zongcheng, Guo Songtao, Wang Yun, Xu Zongliang, etc. Participated in the activities of writing epitaphs, inscriptions, local chronicles, books collection, praising loyalty and loyalty records or loyalty records. In the eighth year of Xianfeng, Zeng Guofan invited to build a loyalty temple in Xiangxiang County to commemorate the nearly 5,000 soldiers who died in the expedition in the county, and asked to build a special temple for Xiang generals Luo Zenan, Wang Xin and Liu Tenghong born in Xiangxiang to pay tribute to local officials in the Spring and Autumn Period, so as to publicize the court's way of praising loyalty and encouraging festivals. In July of the tenth year of Xianfeng, Zeng Guofan, at the request of Li, requested the establishment of Zhongyi Temple in Pingjiang County, in order to inspire the people and maintain the morals. Other leaders of the Xiang army and officials of the Qing government also called for the establishment of special shrines for the dead officers and men of the Xiang army, such as the Twelve Loyalty and Righteousness shrines in Changsha (in memory of Xiang generals Jiang Zhongyuan, Tachibu, Hu Linyi, Li, Xiao Qijiang, Li Xuyi, Zhang, Huang Runchang, Li Chendian), the shrines and the Sangong shrines (in memory of the late Hunan governors Luo Zhang Bing, Zhang Jiliang and Li Chendian). As the hometown of Xiang Army, Hunan has successively established ancestral halls and specialized halls for the dead soldiers of Xiang Army. These ancestral halls and specialized halls are admired by later generations and become valuable cultural heritage in the modern Hunan cultural system.