Positive statement
Looking at the life of Zuo Zongtang, the most brilliant is the recovery of one-sixth of the country. This is his personal honor and pride, but also the blessing of the country. Zhejiang governor, Zuo Zongtang's old friend Yang Changjun in the Qing court restoration of Xinjiang province to the West, where, willow shade, birds singing branches, people and cars, a hundred prosperous, immediately recited a "respectfully recite the left Gong westward Gantang": generals prepare the border has not yet yet returned, Hunan children full of Tianshan; newly planted willows 3,000 miles, attracted the spring breeze across the Jade Pass.
Corresponding to the Tang poet Wang Zhilu's generous and melancholic "Spring winds do not pass through the Jade Gate", there are more than just willows stirring up the spring outside the Jade Gate. I read this poem when I was in elementary school, a small heart, unlimited admiration for the hero.
Later, I went to Xinjiang and saw the Tang Dynasty couplet written by Zuo Zongtang at the Shrine of Zhaozhong: "Where is the countryside at sunset, and how many people have returned from ancient battles?
I know, my old hometown since the tasseled western expedition, gray hair on the border, there is no intention to return home. His letter to his family expressed such an ambition: "the world always need someone to do, the country can not do without Shaanxi and Gansu, Shaanxi and Gansu can not do without the Governor, a scholar, a few years Ren and fold, can not take refuge in the easy way!" He has long put personal life and death at risk, even if it is the abyss, but also a hundred folds, preferring to wrap the body in horse leather. Once a person will be his fate and the fate of the motherland together, he will glory and shame are dead, fame and fortune are dead, his personality is great, holding up the backbone of the Chinese nation.
Zuo Zongtang was originally a man of letters, but is a man of letters who lives for politics. Between the military and horseback, leaving a lot of couplets and poetic, worried about the country and the people, read to the heart. Zuo Zongtang is an official, but it is an official who worries about the country and the people. His official do big enough, from a cloth to the first grade officer, powerful. If he had taken his salary and fished for the people, or lived in a different way, Chinese history would have had one less national hero, and we might be standing on the other side of history today sighing at the crippled mountains and rivers of our motherland.
The personality of a member of a nation not only reflects the character and spirit of the nation, but also directly affects the survival and development of the nation.
Rather than the broken mountains and rivers achieved Zuo Zongtang's fame, it is better to say that Zuo Zongtang created this period of history. The first time to the Beijing examination, twenty-two-year-old Zuo Zongtang survey of the Northwest, concerned about the establishment of the Xinjiang province and reclamation. He wrote a poem, said: stone domains around the soldiers do not count the years, when the country reopened the border, camel ten thousand miles to lose the official rice, moraine thousands of years this stone field.
Setting up the province is still bothering the other day policy, Xingtun Ning Fei Duo Zhi money?
The general will not be able to alleviate his worries, but he will be able to make a living in the Central Plains.
The recovery of Xinjiang, Zuo Zongtang has paid a special visit to the Fujian Lin Zexu Shrine, in front of the statue of the Lin Gong silent mourning, he did not forget to complete this mission is the Lin Gong's instructions and expectations, and he even Taoshu, Lin Zexu's successor to the self-proclaimed, in the two Tao Lin Shrine to write a couplet: three Wu Song love, the whale waves are leveling off, the salt, such as the public are immortal; thirty years of the sound of the dust, the Hong mud even step, the General Purpose of the General River, I'm back. I'm going to come back again.
It is this person who focuses on the use of the world rather than mastering the eight stocks, took up the important task of recovering the sovereignty of the country. Zuo Zongtang's historical existence, a profound perspective of the soul of the nation. Zuo Zongtang spirit, Zuo Zongtang personality, typical and true embodiment of the essence of the traditional Chinese literati spirit. It can be said that Zuo Zongtang shaped the spiritual model of traditional literati with the fire of his whole life.
We y call for Zuo Zongtang, call for loyal character, our country, our nation, our people need the purification of heroic character.
Side reaction
The attitude of countries
Just after the Empress Dowager Cixi issued an imperial edict of a night, Fuzhou torrential rain poured down, suddenly heard a crack of thunder, the southeast corner of the city wall, was suddenly torn apart by a few zhang wide wide mouth, while the residents under the city unharmed. The people said, Zuo Zongtang died, this is the will of God, to destroy my Great Wall.
Zuo Zongtang died, the left male regulator labeled "quiet", "avoid" the words of the lantern. Has been covered with white gauze lamp instead of heavy death, pressure people can not breathe. This white light, proclaiming the end of the strong voice of the times, this is an era of resistance, against foreign invasion, Zuo Zongtang is the mainstay. And has "second-class Schengen Marquis, East Cabinet University sergeant, Crown Prince Prince, first-class cavalry lieutenant, rewarded with a yellow coat, Governor of the two rivers, Minister of commerce in the South China Sea," and other seven titles Zuo Zongtang, the man of half a lifetime of glory, and finally withdrew from the stage of history.
The French were relieved. They were taking Taiwan Island, and their warships were still making a show of force in the East China Sea. Zuo Zongtang and they set up a duel stance, issued a "cross the sea to kill thieves" mobilization order. They ate Zuo Zongtang's big loss, know that he is a lion. A lion leading a group of sheep, each is a lion; and a group of lions led by a sheep, each becomes a sheep. Once Zuo Zongtang died, the herd was leaderless.
The British were relieved. British consul in the Shanghai Concession erected "Chinese and dogs, not allowed to enter" sign, Zuo Zongtang found, ordered the guards to immediately destroy and confiscate the park, arrest the culprits. Sitting in the eight people carry green sedan chair in the left Zongtang, wearing a yellow waistcoat, wearing a jeweled top, three eyes plume, holding a goose fan, full face, majestic. As long as he enters the lease, the lease authorities immediately change the Chinese dragon flag, foreign soldiers and police whip to clear the road. Zuo Zongtang died, there is no need to be so respectful to the Chinese.