This is the first couplet of a couplet by Zuo Zongtang, and the second couplet is "Choose a high place to stand, just sit flat and walk wide". The second couplet is to teach people how to behave, to look at problems in the long run, to be a low-key person, and to leave room for themselves and others in everything.
This is Li Ka-shing's favorite couplet, the only calligraphy couplet in his study, and it can also be said to be his life guide.
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Zuo Zongtang (18 12 1 1 0 day-1September 5, 885), Han nationality, with a high word season and a simple word, is a farmer in Hunan. Hunan Xiangyin people. An important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, a strategist, politician, a famous general of Xiang Army, one of the representatives of Westernization School and one of the four famous ministers of ZTE in the late Qing Dynasty.
Zuo Zongtang studied at Chengnan College in Changsha, and got the provincial examination at the age of 20, although he tried again and again in the examination. After that, Muyou took part in the movement to pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, set up the Westernization Movement, suppressed the Nian Army, pacify the Tongzhi Rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu, recover Xinjiang, and promote the establishment of Xinjiang as a province. During the Sino-French War, he invited himself to Fujian to supervise the division, and died in Fuzhou in the 11th year of Guangxu (1885) at the age of 73.
Zuo Zongtang wrote Chu Barracks System and Park Cunge's Agricultural Books, etc., and his manuscripts and documents were the Complete Works of Zuo Wenxiang, and later generations compiled the Complete Works of Zuo Zongtang.
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