The Zeng Guofan Historical Image Of Exploration

As the direct men who experienced in the historical activities of Tsent Kuo-fan, the support staffs have the unique features in the understanding of Tsent Kuo-fan. The images of Tsent Kuo-fan in their eyes offer the "original sample" for knowing him all-around later. This paper elaborates Tsent Kuo-fan's early history image from the perspective of Tsent'aides and staffs, according to their account, recall and evaluation by the same point of view, Select six angles of the horizontal side of Tsent Kuo-fan, which are exploits, moral courtiers, personality, and educatiing people, scholarship and recommend elites, then, compare and analysis the differences and similarities separately. From this work, the author attempt to drawn out six kind of the early history image of Tsent Kuo-fan Eventually, which are the most important resurgence courtier, loyal courtier, absolutely true gentleman,teacher, old Confucian and good judge of talent.The image of the most important resurgence courtier concluded from exploits describling and praising which were maded by Tsent Kuo-fan's aides and staffs. It was difficult to avoid overstating the history image when aides and staffs makeing their praises to Tsent Kuo-fan, but it was based on the basis of historical facts; The image of loyal courtier came from praising which were maded by Tsent Kuo-fan's aides and staffs who make high praise for Tsent Kuo-fan'good deeds in TianJin religion case in early years of Emperor Xian Feng; The image of absolutely true gentlemen came from aides and staffs'feelings of Tsent Kuo-fan's personality which was their private account, and this reflects their recognition to Tsent Kuo-fan; The image of teacher had two sources, first, the describle and praise of Tsent Kuo-fan as he had educated many elites. Second, the description of the typical issue that Tsent Kuo-fan had raised Li Hongzhang; The image of old Confucian carne from aides and staffs's description of Tsent Kuofan's extensive scholarly and his spirit of diligence on study; The image of good judge of talent came from aides and staffs's description and recall of Tseng Kuofan's typical issues on recommendding elites.This essay made a simple comparison and analysis to the image between the early and later. It researched into the reasons why the image of Tseng Kuo-fan became complicated.