was reading a letter written by Zeng Guofan to his family recently, which impressed me deeply.
Let’s not talk about how great Zeng Guofan is. Every time I read Zeng Guofan’s family letter, my heart is moved. I am moved by his share of responsibility and responsibility to the family. His letter is not just for family members. , But a letter to all the family members in the world.
As a high-ranking and powerful official at the time, he was just like an ordinary person in front of his family, and he was a wanderer who was alone but always concerned about his family.
didn't have a trace of air, and what they were talking about were family trivial matters and my own life perception. Looking at those words, I saw a real man sitting at his desk under an oil lamp, holding a pen and writing a family letter.
Now we are always very busy, and we are getting more and more alienated from our family members.
Now we are away from home, we don’t need to use video letters to communicate with our previous family members, we just need to make phone calls. Up. However, there are a few people who can do like Zeng Guofan. Every time, they must first bow down to their parents, greet them, and then start to talk about life trivial matters, official perceptions, life opinions and so on.
We seem to be very busy now, too busy to say a few words with family members, and even more impatient to tell family members about life trivial matters and workplace disputes. On the one hand, we feel that talking to family members is useless and cannot help. Being busy, on the other hand, I don’t want my family to worry about it, so no matter how big or stressful, I have to carry it myself.
As everyone knows, the more you don’t want to talk about these trivial things with your family, the less you can talk about with your family. Apart from the blood relationship with your family, everything else is unfamiliar. I don't understand, I don't know, it may be better to be intimate with my buddies or girlfriends than my family.
Next, I will share with you a few quotes from Zeng Guofan.
1. Be honest, cautious, and diligent
. The tube says: " is half full, and people go to the sky and the sky is flattened by 32 people. Scrape it.
Zeng Guofan believes that he is in the position of general, and several younger brothers are also proud of the spring breeze, and they are full of vigor. It can be said that no family in recent generations is like the Zeng family, who are in their prime.
The sun will always set at noon, and the round moon will be incomplete. Zeng Guofan feels that his status is too high and his reputation is too great, and he is afraid that the blessings left by his ancestors will be accumulated, and they will enjoy them all. It's up to the sky or others to level it.
Therefore, he can't wait for the sky to level off, nor does he wait for someone to level off. He wants to level off with his brothers.
The so-called self-scraping is to do : clean, prudent, and hardworking .
should be humble and respectful to people and things, not bully others, don't squander power and money at will, be cautious everywhere , always maintain the spirit of hard work and learning, Zeng Guofan reminded the brothers to always encourage them.
Zeng Guopan realized that he must maintain a low-key life and a high-profile way of doing things at all times when his official position was high and his family was rich.
Throughout the ages, how many people are too complacent to know that the sky is high and the earth is thick. In the end, they have lost their families and lost their lives. It is frozen three feet, not a day's cold. If you think about it carefully, the beginning and the end of everything are echoed. The party involved in the Central Plains Committee will naturally understand, but it will be too late to regret it!
Therefore, at any time, we must keep a clear head at , don’t be dazzled by temporary power and money, and walk indifferently. between the trough and the peak.
two , to enter Germany, the importance of study
to enter Germany, refers to: filial piety, love, benevolence, and righteousness.
study, refers to: writing poetry, composition, and handwriting skills .
Zeng Guofan believes that the two things of going to Germany and studying should be taken care of by ourselves. We have to advance one foot, one foot of our own, and one inch of our own.
If enters one point of virtue today, it can be regarded as accumulating a liter of liter. Tomorrow will take one point and one cent is left, and both virtue and karma will increase. Then the family business will rise day by day. As for fame and fortune, It's all determined by fate, and it's not at all up to you.
The noble character and the knowledge learned are our own things, which no one can take away. As for the things given by others, we can’t make our own decisions. Don’t get them or lose them. Care too much, just let it go.
3. Be self-reliant, why choose a place, you can learn everywhere
Zeng Guofan told his brother: if you want to work hard, you can be self-reliant, you can go to school if you don’t want to go to school. Reading, a clean environment, and a fairy environment are not suitable for reading. When and where to choose, just ask yourself, is the self-reliance ambition true?
Now we have too many things we want to do and learn. It feels like we open our eyes every day and the time is full. But at the end of the day, how many things are really done?
This all means that our is not focused, not self-disciplined enough, and we have too many excuses for ourselves. If we really want to do something from the bottom of our heart, no matter what the situation, we will find a way. Method to complete.
So, don't make excuses for what you can't do. Just ask yourself, do you really want to do it?
Fourth, the family style is immutable
These things can tell whether the family is prosperous or declining.
All family traditions that can last, do not rely on temporary official positions, but rely on long-term family rules, do not rely on the sudden success of one or two people, but rely on the maintenance of the masses, old relatives and old relatives, poor clan parties, do not neglect others, The treatment of poverty is the same as the treatment of wealth. When you think of decline when you are prosperous, you will naturally have a solid foundation.
When Zeng Guofan was a high-ranking official, he still did not forget the vegetables, fields, ponds, bamboos, and take care of old relatives and relatives, and other trivial things. Therefore, he won the support and support of many people. In one sentence, it is that won't forget the original This attitude and spirit is worthy of our study.
Many people, when they are in poverty, they behave with their tails sandwiched between them. Once they become successful, they will bully others. They will look down on others and do not leave a way for them to do things. When there is something wrong, no one will help. A bad end.
Therefore, people, , at any time, don't forget your roots, and your own .
Five or Five Ways to Self-cultivation
Zeng Guopan shared with his family five ways to maintain one’s health:
One is to sleep regularly; the other is to control anger; the third is abstinence; the fourth is to wash feet before sleep; Fifth, three thousand steps after a meal. These five principles of
in today's society are also the health-preserving ways that every one of us is advocating. Although they may seem simple, few people can actually do it.
I am touched that Zeng Guopan can share all these things with his family. He reflects on his own shortcomings one by one, knowing that if he does not pay attention to his health, he will not be able to accomplish his great cause. It was not too early to realize this, but he made up his mind to do what he said, and repeatedly warned his family that health is the first priority, not to get angry when things happen, and to maintain a peaceful mind.
I have been thinking about it, although Zeng Guofan has left us for more than 100 years, but all the words he said are so true and appropriate, without any sense of the times, as if he had never left.
This is the incarnation of our traditional Chinese culture " self-cultivation, family harmony, rule the country and the world ".
This is also something carved in the bones of each of us in the Chinese nation. It will be passed on forever. After a hundred years or tens of thousands of years, it will not change...
Author's profile: Yingmuzi, a workplace for the first half of his life, a farm for the second half of his life, The owner of the hotel with a hoe in the left hand and a pen in the right hand.
