The four famous officials in the late Qing Dynasty were Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, and Zhang Zhidong.

1. Zeng Guofan

He was promoted to the governor of Liangjiang, the governor of Zhili, and a bachelor of Wuyingdian. He was granted the title of first-class Yiyonghou, with the posthumous title of Wenzheng. His first name was Zicheng, his courtesy name was Bohan, his given name was Disheng, his posthumous title was Wenzheng, Han nationality, and a native of Xiangxiang County, Changsha Prefecture, Hunan Province. An important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, the founder and commander of the Hunan Army. A military strategist, Neo-Confucianist, politician, calligrapher, and writer of the Qing Dynasty, he was the founder of the "Xiangxiang School" of prose in the late Qing Dynasty.

2. Zuo Zongtang

Han nationality, courtesy name Jigao, from Xiangyin, Hunan, nicknamed Xiangshang Nongren, an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, a strategist, politician, and a famous Hunan Army general . Throughout his life, he experienced important historical events such as the Hunan Army's pacification of the Taiping Rebellion, the Westernization Movement, the suppression of the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion and the recovery of Xinjiang.

3. Li Hongzhang

A famous official in the late Qing Dynasty and the main leader of the Westernization Movement. He was a native of Hefei, Anhui Province. He was mostly respectfully called Li Zhongtang, also known as Li Hefei. His real name was Zhang Tong, and his courtesy name was Jian. Fu or Zifu, named Shaoquan (Quan). As the founder and commander-in-chief of the Huai Army, one of the main advocates of the Westernization Movement, and an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, he served as governor-general of Zhili and Minister of Commerce of Beiyang, and was awarded the bachelor's degree of Wenhua Palace. During the Westernization Movement, he created China's "forty-six First".

4. Zhang Zhidong

His courtesy name was Xiaoda, his nicknames were Xiangtao, Xiangyan, Yigong, and Wujing Jushi. In his later years, he named himself Baobing. Han nationality, a native of Nanpi (now Nanpi, Hebei) in the Qing Dynasty, one of the representatives of the Westernization movement. His proposition of "Chinese learning as the body and Western learning as the application" is a summary and summary of the basic program of the Westernization movement and early reformists. Generalization.

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The Qing Dynasty, the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history. Counting from the establishment of Houjin by Nurhaci in 1616 to the abdication of Emperor Xuantong in 1912, it has a history of 296 years.

During the reign of the three emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, society was stable and people's lives improved greatly. The Qing Empire reached its peak stage in history, which is known as the "Kangxi and Qianlong Era" in history. .