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"Illustrated Ice Mirror of Zeng Guofan" mainly tells about another unknown knowledge of Zeng Guofan. Some people say that only one of the thirteen sets of knowledge of Zeng Guofan, a famous official in the resurgence of the Qing Dynasty, has been handed down, and that is "Zeng Guofan's Family Letter". In fact, there are two sets handed down. The other set is Zeng Guofan's knowledge of people - the book "Bingjian". The term "Bingjian" means using ice as a mirror to observe everything clearly and know the face and heart, and proposes various methods and approaches to identify talents. Zeng Guofan's art of observing people is different from traditional customs. It emphasizes spirit and form, emphasizes the ordinary and distinguishes it with the strange, emphasizes etiquette and guides it with the technique, judges people based on their appearance, picks people up based on their gods, grasps the essence of people from the static, and observes the fate of people from the dynamic. Later, the book "History of the Rise and Fall of the Chiang Dynasty" said: Zeng Guofan wrote the book "Bingjian" and was a great master of Qi and physiognomy. It is said that when Jiang Weiguo was the president of the Armed Forces University, the book "Bingjian" was designated as an important reference book for students.