Nourishing Qi Oriented And Promoting Qi First

Zeng Guo fan was a famous politician,militarist,Noo-Confucian philosopher and litterateur in the Qing dynasty.He dedicated his life to the Qing Empire and his cause and contribution reached the peak of the empire.During his political and milltary career,he wrote a lot of works,among which many diaries,letters and poems served his brothers and offsprings as study guidance summed up from his own pursue of studies.Their contents are rich and broad with unique and profound views.They can be regarded as comprehensive expression of views on Chinese traditional language and literature education.His views on Chinese learning exceeded predecessors'in values and methodology and are still worth of rererence in the contemporary era.Qi or spirit is frequently mentioned in his works.The core of his views on language and literature acquisition is Nourishing and Promoting Qi.In his point of view,the core value of language and literature acquisition is to Nourish Qi.He endowed Qi with rich connotations.In his works,we may find out that Qi promoted by him is a complete spiritual world and a complete system rooted on the argumentation forming on the basis of his owm disposition with the ultimate pursue of a Learning both Sound in Theory and Practice,and Achieving Understanding,Cultivating Virtue and Benefiting Human Life as ways of practice giving consideration of individual value.In his works,Qi is the Individual Style and language and literature acquisition is a co-existing and mutually benefiting process of reading for Nourishing Qi and writing and doing exercise in calligraphy for Promoting Qi.Under the guidance of the core value of Nourishing and Promoting Qi,Zeng Guofan advocated learning according to individual aptitude and interest in language and literature acquisition method.He paid special attention to the influence of psychological ana human environments on the pursue of studies and stressed on the study attitude of determination,persistence,experiencing and observation.It benefits a learner to cultivate a way of life-long Promoting Qi for pursuing studies with the guidance.Zeng Guofan believed that reading is an important means of promoting Qi.Therefore,he stressed on reading books,the basis of Qi,paid attention to reading guidance on key ancient records,emphasized the combination of Extensiveness and Proficiency,and attached the significance of deep understanding as a reading state to one' s spiritual accomplishment.In writing teaching,he stressed the function of Promoting Qi by combining the vigor of the article with the author's spiritual character and guided writing practice and skills with the requirement of Promoting Qi.The theory of Promoting Qi is also applied to exercising calligraphy and interpretation and guidance of strokes and structure of characters.In order for the later learners to better nourish Qi in language and literature acquisition and promote Qi in writing,Zeng Guofan compiled A Collection of Works by a Hundred Writers,A Collection of Poems by 18 Poets and the Mingyuan Tang Proses Collection which reflected his theory of Chinese learning and has become important readers for later learners.