The Recipe for Harmonizing the Family: Tang Haoming Comments on Zeng Guofan's Family Letters
by Tang Haoming
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Understanding the sage Zeng Guofan is better than reading thousands of mediocre works. Zeng left tens of millions of words in ink in voluminous volumes with mixed contents. Where should we start to imitate him as a teacher and general, and learn from his meritorious deeds and virtues? Tang Haoming, an expert on Zeng Guofan, spent many years of hard work and published a six-volume series of "Tang Haoming Comments on Zeng Guofan". He selected Zeng Guofan's family letters, letters, memorials, quotations, poems, and diaries and commented on them, leading readers to get to know a Zeng Guofan who could be felt, lamented, and learned. "Recipes for Harmonizing the Family: Tang Haoming Comments on Zeng Guofan's Family Letters" selects 128 letters from the Zeng family letters that have survived for more than a thousand times for translation and commentary. Vertically, these more than 100 family letters run through Zeng's life; horizontally, the perspectives of comments are three-dimensional and diverse, involving many aspects such as Zeng's family background, education, personal connections, and historical background. The content is mainly comments, with the original text of the family letter attached. Each letter home touches on a topic and is a fresh way to understand Zeng. Family, society, workplace and officialdom, life and work, Zeng's lifelong wisdom is all there.
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