1, it is Zhang Zhidong, there are three kinds of history, Xie Jin, Ji Xiaolan and Zhang Zhidong, from the view of the Empress Dowager Cixi in your title, you ask should be Zhang Zhidong's version.

One day in the middle of summer, the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty went to the Hanlin Painting and Calligraphy Institute, to view the real calligraphy and painting of the past generations. She asked Zhang Zhidong, the accompanying cabinet minister, to inscribe an ancient poem on the surface of her ivory-handled white silk fan, and Zhang Zhidong faithfully inscribed "The Lyrics of Liangzhou," by the great Tang poet Wang Zhilu: ?

The Yellow River is far away from the white clouds, a lonely city with ten thousand feet of mountains.

The Qiang flute has no need to complain about the willow, and the spring breeze does not pass through the Jade Gate.

The ancients wrote their poems without punctuation, and the "Old Buddha" found the word "between" in the first sentence. I think Zhang Zhidong intentionally teased her uneducated. So, angry, have to be beheaded Zhang Zhidong can not.

The entourage knelt down to plead for Zhang Zhidong, but Zhang Zhidong was not panicked, said: "the old Buddha's anger, this is originally a word, so called "Liangzhou words", the descendants feel that the reading does not make sense, it is in the 'white cloud' after adding a 'between ' and it became a poem in seven lines.

Zhang Zhidong casually recited: "The Yellow River is far away, the white clouds are in the air, and the lone city is ten thousand refreshing mountains. The Qiang flute has no need to complain. The spring breeze of the willow willow is not enough to pass through the Jade Gate.

2, Zhang Zhidong introduction:

Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), word Xiaoda, the number of Xiangtao, but also the Governor, called "Shuai", so people call it "Zhang Xiangshuai". He was a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty and a representative of the foreign affairs faction of the Qing Dynasty. He was born in Xingyifu, Guizhou Province, and his ancestral home was Nanpi, Zhili Province.

Hamfeng two years (1852) sixteen years old in Shun Tianfu Xie Yuan, Tongzhi two years (1863) twenty-seven years old in the third place in the jinshi flower, awarded the Hanlin Academy editorial training, successive teaching, service readers, service lecturers, Cabinet Bachelor, Shanxi Governor, Governor of the two provinces, the Governor of Hubei and Hunan, Governor of the Two Rivers (many times acting, never actually authorized), the military Minister and so on, the official to the body of the cabinet of the University of the Minister.

Zhang Zhidong was the head of the Qing school in his early years, and later became the main representative of the foreign affairs school. Education, he founded the school of self-improvement (now the predecessor of Wuhan University), Sanjiang Normal School (now the predecessor of the University of Nanjing), Hubei Agricultural School, Hubei Wuchang Monastery, Hubei Crafts School, Ci'en School (Nanpi County First High School), Guangya Academy and so on.

Politically, he advocated that "middle school should be the body and western learning should be the use". Industrial founding of Hanyang Iron Works, Daye Iron Mine, Hubei Gun Factory. When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded, the Dagu Fortress was defended, Zhang Zhidong, together with the Governor of the two rivers, Liu Kunyi, and the consulates in Shanghai to discuss the "Southeast Mutual Assurance", and suppress the reformist Tang Caichang, Lin Gui, Qin Lishan and other self-supporting army uprisings.

In November, 1908, he was promoted to the rank of Prince of Crown Prince, and died the following year, posthumously. There is the Complete Works of Zhang Wenxiang Gong. Zhang Zhidong and Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang and known as the "four great ministers of the late Qing dynasty".

Expanded Information:

1. p>1, scripture achievements

Zhang Zhidong is proficient in Confucianism and scripture, advocating "through the scriptures to utilize" and "through the world to utilize". 24 years old, Zhang Zhidong wrote in a poem of the generation: "benevolence and thick to keep the family law, loyalty and goodness to repay the country's kindness, through the scriptures to the world. The honor of the country, the use of the scriptures for the world, the clear way to keep the Confucian treasures." [23]? [23]? This not only indicates the formation of his idea of "applying the scriptures to the world", but also forecasts his future endeavors. Before and at the beginning of his appointment as a frontier, his activities to revitalize Confucianism are mainly manifested in the following aspects:

(1) the establishment of a wide range of colleges and schools of righteousness, expanding the scope of Confucianism. As a school official, Zhang Zhidong in Hubei and Sichuan were set up by the heart of the Academy and Zunjing Academy, from the name of the Academy with "by", its intention can be seen. When he first became governor, he was more ambitious, advocating "to reduce the community money to broaden the righteousness of the school", "exempted from the school to respect the school", "clearing the school field to restore the old chapter", "to raise funds to repair the school", "to raise funds to repair the school", "to raise funds to repair the school", "to raise funds to repair the school". The government has also been promoting the idea of "reducing the amount of money for the school", "exempting the students from paying taxes in order to respect the school", "clearing the school fields in order to restore the old chapters", "raising funds to repair the academy", etc.

(2) compilation of "trifling language" and "bibliography answer" two books, on the study of the clergy, cultivate Confucianism academic seeds.

The two books were written in 1875, when Zhang Zhidong was serving as a scholar in Sichuan. In these two books, he elaborated the academic thinking of the "through the use of" for young students to point out the academic path, acting as a "teacher", showing for the general feudal bureaucrats and corrupt Confucian scholars difficult to reach the academic vision of the late Qing Dynasty to revitalize and expand the core of traditional Confucianism as a powerful tool for academic. It became a powerful tool for revitalizing and expanding the traditional Confucianism-centered academics in the late Qing Dynasty.

(3) He advocated and took the lead in printing and engraving academic books to facilitate the study of Confucianism for the scholars. In the "bibliography", Zhang Zhidong had a special list of "persuade engraved books," that "engraved books to pass on the essence of the philosophers, enlightenment of the latter's difficult to understand, but also the first thing to do, the accumulation of the good of the elegant talk. "

Zhang Zhidong like to study the scriptures, according to him in his later years claimed: "life in the Yi, rituals, Spring and Autumn dedicated to the deepest, want to beg to go back to their homes, the scriptures say a few things, and things are not what they want, rather regret. "He believes that the way to use, learning more than one way, but must first "through the scriptures", because learning to "have this". This "this", "scholars because of the root". "Gou have its own, that all academic, Peiran who can defend, to its end, to be useful. The world's human resources out of learning, learning had to first seek all the scriptures ...... its potential, its order. "

2, calligraphy achievements

Zhang Zhidong work book, calligraphy Su Shi, renowned. It is also good at "m style", the force of the brush, handsome and bold, and tumbling. Zhang Zhidong had to Zhang Peilun privately taught "book know-how", said "that is, in the two words to seek, stylistic seeking rich, with the pen to seek wet", natural rich, the pen to carry out, is a common style of his style of calligraphy.

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