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Zeng Guofan was born in 1811 in Xiangxiang County, Changsha Prefecture, Hunan Province. He was a politician, strategist, neo-Confucianist, writer, and scholar in the late Qing Dynasty in China. Calligrapher, founder and commander of the Hunan Army.
Hong Xiuquan was born in 1814 in Guanlu Village, Xinhua Town, Huaxian County, Guangdong Province (now Huadu District, Guangzhou City). In 1851, Hong Xiuquan launched the Jintian Uprising and established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Zeng Guofan Hanlin Jinshi VS Hong Xiuquan's failed scholar: Zeng Wenzhenggong started to form the Hunan Army in his hometown in Hunan in 1853. He fought with the Taiping Rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan for 12 years. In 1864, he led the Xiangjun to conquer Tianjing. Half a month before the city fell, Hong Xiuquan died of illness.
The scholars have rebelled for more than ten years, sweeping through the southeast and causing a loss of life; the Jinshi rectified the army and practiced martial arts, re-established Zhongxing, and became a highly respected minister. The imperial examination determined the fate of scholars at that time. After Tianjing was established as the capital, Hong Xiuquan advocated that the Four Books and Five Classics be listed as banned books. However, the illiterate Yang Xiuqing stood up and strongly opposed it. He used "Heavenly Father descended to earth" to force Hong Xiuquan to give in. The latter had no choice but to agree that the Four Books and Five Classics could be published and circulated after revision. However, until It was not published even after the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Let’s talk about Zeng Guofan, who ascended the throne at the age of twenty-eight. With Mu Zhang’a’s promotion and Emperor Daoguang’s appreciation, he moved seven times in ten years and was promoted ten levels in a row, becoming a second-rank official in the imperial court. In February 1854, when the Hunan army came out in full force, Zeng Guofan published "An Message to the Cantonese Bandits", claiming that the Taiping Rebellion was "poisonous to all living beings" and that "China's thousands of years of etiquette, justice, human ethics, poetry, books, and codes will be wiped out once they are wiped out." I am not the only one who has experienced a strange change in the Qing Dynasty. It is also a strange change in famous religions since the founding of the world. Confucius and Mencius wept bitterly at Jiuquan." He then called on "all those who are reading and literate can sit back and relax without thinking about what they want to do." , he stood on the commanding heights of morality, won over scholars all over the world, and laid a solid foundation for future victory in counterinsurgency.