Du Shoutian, a native of Binzhou, Shandong Province, was a politician in the Qing Dynasty. Born in Qianlong dynasty and grew up in Jiaqing dynasty. During Daoguang and Xianfeng years, he successively served as a bachelor of cabinet, assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry, consultant of Zuodu, assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry and university students, and also took charge of official punishment. Du Shoutian's lifelong career mainly lies in serving as the general tutor and master of the study room, educating princes and other princes. In the early years of Xianfeng, he tried his best to assist Emperor Xianfeng and made special contributions to politics in the late Qing Dynasty.
I've heard a lot about Du Shoutian. Not because of the above introduction, but because he is not as qualified as Brother Liu? Fourth brother helped the throne. So, I am curious, what kind of environment did this "generation of emperors" grow up in?
After visiting the former residence, I realized that Du Shoutian became a "great master" because he was deeply influenced by the whole Du family and Du culture.
The Du family, represented by the thought, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a large number of talented people, serving as the official frontier and the official world, and being the banner of the literary world. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were 347 scholars in Du family, including scholars 12, 6 academicians and 8 juries. There are 39 civil servants and more than 0/000 military commanders. Du Jia is famous for being "Twelve Scholars", "Six Academicians of Father, Son and Uncle", "Four generations living under one roof" and "All officials are honest". Du family broke the custom of "three generations are not prosperous" because of Du culture.
The first essence of Du culture is "righteousness". An upright heart can make things right. Only by self-cultivation can we promote the rule of the family and the world, and we can become people with noble morality, rich wisdom and the ability to serve the country. Du Shi, the eighth political envoy of Jiangxi Province, adhered to the right path all his life, promoted good and eliminated evil, and was open-minded and upright. At the risk of being dismissed from office, he resolutely resisted setting up a shrine for eunuch Wei Zhongxian in Jiangxi. On his way home from the mansion, he passed through Huimin County, which coincided with the return of Yuan Huazhong, one of the "six gentlemen" persecuted to death by Wei Zhongxian. He is not afraid of power and insists on paying homage. Du Shu, the grandson of Du Shi, inherited the legacy of his ancestors. He is diligent, loves the people and enforces the law fairly. Because the river died, he wrote frankly that Chen planned to harness the river and personally inspected the dikes affected by the river to supervise river affairs. The local people named this dam "Dugong Dike". Du Fu, Yan's first grandson, is an upright man. When he became the magistrate of Sizhou, he used his salary to buy wheat seeds and advised the people to grow wheat. People call this kind of wheat "Dugong Wheat".
The essence of Du culture is education. In the seventh year of Daoguang (1827), Du Xun, the elder of the Three Dynasties and the father of assistant minister of rites, wrote the Du family's educational monograph "Book Instructions". We advocate the lofty life goals of "learning to be excellent is an official, learning to be excellent is not an official, and learning to be excellent is an official", "an official can't do anything, a book can't be read" and "suffering from no position, but suffering from no position". Therefore, reading is to "seek the source of its mind and get the way to apply it to the home country and the world" and increase the talent and conduct of "turning people into customs and doing their duty to serve the country". At the same time, educators should adhere to the advanced consciousness of "lifelong learning and lifelong education", not only for their own study, but also for their children's lifelong education. It is these advanced educational ideas and practical educational practices that support the brilliant situation of the Du family and the emergence of talents from generation to generation. Forty-eight Book Instructions always shines with wisdom in the vast educational classics of the Chinese nation.
The representative figure of Du cultural accomplishment is. Du Shoutian realized the true meaning of life. He was upright, loyal and filial, patriotic and compassionate, honest and diligent, and devoted to his duties. The purpose of restoring and developing the former residence is to carry forward Du Fu's spirit and make it a training base for leading cadres. First, carry forward Du's cultural and educational thoughts and build this place into a youth education base; Publicize Du's thought of family harmony and neighborhood harmony, and build a demonstration base of socialist harmonious society.
"Don't dye like lotus, why not? The vacuum is like the water moon, and the Zen machine is a literary machine. " This couplet of Dujia private school reveals infinite philosophy and dialectics. The high-grade cultural atmosphere of Du Shoutian's former residence first cultivates people's souls.