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This book is a major cultural prose work written by writer Zeng Jixin in recent years, in which he thinks about regional culture, historical celebrities and real social issues. The whole book consists of 15 independent articles, but a strong awareness of advantages and disadvantages and a passionate love for hometown and country are always the main themes of the book. Taking the Jingchu region, located in the heart of China, as a sample, the author resolutely penetrates through the layers of historical curtains through the fate of historical figures, the changes in historical events, and the rise and fall of historical places of interest, and his sharp strokes directly point to the embarrassing and heavy topics in real society. Among them, "Out of Gulongzhong" and "The Ancient City of Jingzhou" fervently call for reform, hoping that people will break through the feudal trap, abandon the small-peasant consciousness, and jump into the tide of modern civilization to get rid of the midstream.

"The Face of History" is a collection of cultural essays by Zeng Jixin, and is also one of the "Classic Series of Cultural Essays". Zeng Jixin is one of the important authors of historical prose writing, and his work "Forever Station" has had a great response in the literary world. This book is written from three perspectives: emperors, ministers, and thinkers, and selects Zeng Jixin's representative works of cultural prose. This article focuses on the ups and downs of important historical figures such as Qin Shihuang, Zhao Kuangyin, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, and Zhu Xi. The text is easy to understand and has high artistic readability.

History cannot bear to be scrutinized. How can we take a closer look at history? When you look closely, it's like looking at a beauty with a high-power magnifying glass. The smoothness and roundness are completely gone. What you can see is interlaced scales, pores, and blemishes. Therefore, history to a large extent only focuses on the big picture, not to mention that it needs to be tabooed by respectable people, covered up by famous people, avoided by kings, and tabooed by current political affairs. Therefore, when reading history, one often reads something vague and flickering. That is of course an unspeakable secret for historians. But in fact, the reality of many details is often hidden in the ambiguity and flickering.

The book contains a total of 15 articles in this area, which can be roughly divided into two categories according to their subject matter and content. One is the cultural landscape and relics, such as "Chongwu Ancient City", "Closed and Open Earth Buildings", "Into the Four Fortresses", etc. The author relies on these historical relics to express his eager desire to strengthen national strength, move towards openness and promote traditional excellent culture. The second is historical figures, such as "National Hero Zheng Chenggong", "The Soul of the Century", "Open Your Eyes to See the World", etc. Through the encounters of Zheng Chenggong, Tan Kah Kee, Lin Zexu and other figures, they fully eulogized their moral spirit and sacred sense of historical mission and social responsibility of "living and dying for the benefit of the country, rather than avoiding misfortunes and blessings".

Throughout Yuan Shikai's life, it can be roughly divided into four important stages: stationing in North Korea and serving as the plenipotentiary representative of the Qing court in North Korea. His personal talents were demonstrated to a certain extent and attracted widespread attention from the government and the public; Members of the New Party took advantage of this to obtain qualifications and became governor-general of Zhili and minister of Beiyang, and then were awarded the title of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Military Aircraft. After resigning from office and returning home, they made a comeback and successively served as prime minister of the Qing court, interim president of the Republic of China, and official president.

A little hunchback who was born with a hunched back, sunken chest and bulging back looked very funny in the eyes of the world and was often the target of teasing and teasing. However, he has a very smart head and has intelligence beyond ordinary people. He can often understand the essence of certain things and do some amazing and extraordinary things. As a result, he viewed the world around him with a condescending and humorous eye. He struggled unyieldingly and fought tirelessly. He fought again and again and was defeated again and again. His experience is helpless and bitter, but it can cause us to deeply reflect on the vulgar daily life in which we live.

At 4:10 a. M., Jiangcheng patrol police found a man in his 50s tied to a traffic guardrail on the side of the road. The man was wearing thin underwear and tied with three hemp ropes. One tied the man's upper body firmly to the iron railing, one tied to the wrists of his hands that were cut behind his back, and the third tied his legs and knees together with the guardrail to make him kneel down. In addition, the man had a dirty, torn sock stuffed in his mouth. As a result, the bound man could neither move nor scream. He could only kneel on the spot and let the cold north wind blow around his body like a knife. The man's surname was Wang Minglun. When he was discovered by the patrol, he had been shivering in the cold wind for half an hour. When the patrolman untied the three hemp ropes from his body one by one, his body was almost frozen and hard.