Farming and studying to pass on the family name

All parents want their children to be successful and their daughters to be great. Good family atmosphere, good family style, nature is an invisible force,

In the daily life of the subtle influence on the child's mind, shaping the child's personality, is a kind of speechless education wordless canon, silent power, is the most basic, the most direct, is often the education of the child's influence is all-round. This is also a problem that I have been thinking about, in the end, how to let the children have inheritance, good family style, family training in the end how, recently read the "Zeng Guofan family book", found the answer: cultivation and reading of the family for a long time, poetry and books to follow the world long!

Zeng Guofan's grandfather, Zeng Yuping, was idle when he was young, and then because of ignorance was laughed at, and from then on, he learned from his mistakes, and gradually became a reputable person in the area. But because their families have been farmers for generations, Zeng Yuping, after improving the family's economic conditions, made a grand wish that my family would "cultivate and educate the family", not only to maintain the farmers' tradition of farming, but also to cultivate readers. Only by studying could we change the fate of the Zeng family completely. This has become one of the most important family mottos of the Zeng family. Zeng Guofan also regarded reading as the most important thing in the education of his offspring. He once wrote in a family letter, "I don't wish to be rich and powerful from generation to generation, but I wish to have Xiu Cai from generation to generation. Xiucai is also the seed of reading."

"Plowing and reading passes on to the family", was once a traditional Chinese agricultural society, the well-off farming families strive to pursue an ideal life picture, the famous scholar Feng Youlan once recalled: (Father) do not hope that his children and grandchildren out of the Hanlin, only hope that his children and grandchildren have a Xiucai generation after generation. Because it is impossible to produce Hanlin from generation to generation. But to have a scholar in one's children and grandchildren is not only possible, but also necessary. This means that your family's scholarly lineage will continue, and you can be called a "family of cultivation and study". (Feng Youlan's "Three Pines")

? It has been recognized for hundreds of years that "wealth and riches are passed on to the family for only three generations; poetry and books are passed on to the family for a long time". In "Night Talks Around the Furnace", it is said that "plowing is the way to nourish life, and reading is the way to understand the way, and this is the original principle of plowing and reading." When farming is busy, one plows the fields and plants the land to obtain the means of living; when farming is idle, one browses through books to obtain spiritual nourishment. This is indeed an ideal social family lifestyle, which is now largely forgotten, and it is estimated that this statement will not even be mentioned again.

According to Zeng Guofan, the family of cultivation and study can best be maintained for a long time. In the past families, with very few exceptions, each young son or daughter always had to study for three or five years, and even the average child had to study for at least one or two years. There is a proverb that says: "three generations do not read, a house is a pig".

? Zeng Guofan said "reading can change fate" in the end refers to what? In the "Zeng Guofan family book" has a clear answer, "my generation reading, there are only two things: one into the moral thing, in order to be born without prejudice; one of the things to cultivate the industry, in order to self-defense of its body." In other words, reading can establish the will, reading can also establish the body. Zeng Guofan also said with his son's letter: "human temperament, due to birth, it is difficult to change, but reading can change its temperament. Ancient masters of physiognomy, and said that reading can change the bone phase. Want to change the law, must first set up a strong will." Zeng Guofan is said to be the most proficient at the time of the great Confucian scholar of physiognomy, he said from the point of view of physiognomy, a person's temperament is very difficult to change, only by reading can be changed, "the belly has a poem from the gas from the Hua!"

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How to read the book is right?

Zeng Guofan gave his own advice:

First, to read the classics

The classics are classics that have undergone the test of time, and the reason why the classics are called classics is that it is one of the wisdom, ideas are tested by practice, which is most worthy of posterity to learn and absorb. Intellectual things will be updated with time, but ideological things, intelligent things, the more through the precipitation of time, the more valuable to learn. So the biggest way to read, is to read the classics.

Second, "a book is not enough, do not read new books."

? A book is not read, do not rush to read another book. There are a lot of people have this problem, get a lot of books at once, this flip, that flip, the name of the book read a lot of books, in fact, a book are not read, a book are not read through. Although Zeng Guofan advocated reading to be immersed in it, but not rote memorization. He said to his son: "Where reading, do not have to struggle to remember. Only to swim calmly, today to see a few, tomorrow to see a few, a long time naturally beneficial." Zeng Guofan also advocated reading books to be able to make notes, that is, reading notes. "Slightly made notes, to Zhi gained, to write the doubt." That is, to read the feelings and thoughts, insights, doubtful places, can write down, so as to help read and learn.

Third, is to cultivate personal interest in reading and direction

Zeng Guofan's eldest son did not like the imperial examinations, do not like the eight-legged text, like the Western language and sociology, Zeng Guofan encouraged him to read according to their own direction of interest. The second Zeng Jihong like mathematics, they encouraged him to mathematical research. Zeng Guofan according to the child's own interests, targeted training.

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"Plowing and reading" seems to be interrupted or decline. The "plowing" is the meaning of "practicing farming" and the "reading" is the meaning of "reading the classics". We should not only cultivate organic farmland, but also cultivate the blessed field of life and the spiritual field of life; we should not only read the words of sages on paper, but also read the book of society. We should nourish our lives with learning, seek to round out our personalities internally, and seek to benefit the people externally.