Chapter 18
Return home dressed in rags and be changed by your family? The nouveau riche's mentality of joining the WTO is obvious
Let's take a look at Zeng Guofan's diary of 19 years of Daoguang. How did his family survive the smallpox epidemic?
As the eldest son and grandson of a traditional family (court), Zeng Guofan is naturally different from other roles in the family, and his behavior must conform to the extremely traditional (rules or customs). What's more, Zeng Yuping paid special attention to this. Especially as a newly born aristocrat, it is the focus of others' attention: whether to act in strict accordance with the requirements of Confucian etiquette, whether to perform the duties of getting along with family and interacting with people as the eldest son and grandson, and so on. Even so, as a down-to-earth Confucian, Frant Gwo still remembers to learn and write calligraphy between New Year greetings and walking around. At night, he still finds time to write odd books. It can be seen that its perseverance is indeed comparable to that of ordinary people. It's all in his diary.
The first day of the first month: there is nothing to say at night, and the next day is the second day of the first month.
Xiangxiang customs and habits, "the first son, the second Jiro", this day, all Zeng's son-in-law will come to pay New Year greetings. This year is Zeng Guofan's first year at home, and the elders at home naturally attach great importance to it. They have prepared various foods before. It's really lively today. Four tables are full at noon. After all the guests left, it was already evening. Zeng Guofan insisted on writing a book and leaving the museum.
The rainy day on the third day
On this day, there were very few tourists, only a few uncles from ethnic groups came to pay New Year greetings, among which Uncle Ceng Dan was left behind. In the evening, Zhu Yaojie came to pay a New Year call (the 16th year of Daoguang). Now he is the teacher of the Zeng family-Shu Shi, whose younger brothers, Zeng, Zeng have entered the school).
The fourth day? cloudy day
After breakfast, Zeng Linshu took Zeng Guofan's brothers and all the men to pay homage to the ancestral graves. It was noon when I came back from Fenshan, and Zhu Xiaoshan came. Later, Zeng Guofan's brother-in-law Wang Daipin also came. Since the first day of junior high school, my brother Ji Hong (Man Di Bao Guo) has caught a cold and many pimples. In the evening, Zeng Guofan talked with Zhu Yaojie and Zhu Xiaoshan all night, and it still ended in the morning. After midnight, I went to sleep and woke up at noon on the fifth day. The family reported Ouyang Mu Yun (Zeng Guofan's brother-in-law) to visit, and Zeng Guofan got up.
The sixth day? Big eyes
Zeng Guofan's family was in a good mood, but I didn't expect to hear that his second sister's 50-day-old son died in the middle of the night last night. The second sister's family thought that the evil barrier was too heavy, so they invited Taoist priests and teachers to make a wish and invited her husband's family to participate. Second sister's home is tied in Tianping, more than ten miles away. Zeng Guofan and his party went there as guests and didn't go home until they applied for a license. In the evening, I had a detailed chat with Zhu Yaojie and Zhu Xiaoshan. On the seventh day, Zhu Yaojie and Zhu Xiaoshan were also engraved. After seeing off the two friendly guests, Zeng Guofan went to the second sister's house, and singing opera was also a wishing procedure. On that day, Zeng Guofan visited his sister's house for a day and went to sleep at her house at night (it is said that Zeng Yuping hates gloomy things for people who don't believe in Taoist priests and teachers, but my visit is probably a reminder, but it is beyond my control).
The eighth day of the first month
On this day, my grandfathers, Xing Ganggong, Chen Shou and Zeng Guofan, went to Tianziping to offer birthday greetings and didn't come back until Shenshi.
On the ninth and tenth days of the first month.
Zeng Guofan paid New Year greetings to several elders in the clan, and then went to visit his great-grandfather and several ancestors and buried them in the same place.
The eleventh day of the first month
Zeng Guofan and his brothers had dinner at his third brother Ceng Guohua (who was adopted by his uncle Zeng Jiyun), and then they paid a New Year call to your relatives together. /kloc-go to my sister's house to pay New Year's greetings on 0/2. The elder sister Zeng was married to Wang Guojiu (Wancheng,No. Pengyuan, Hejiaao) and had two nephews, the eldest son Wang and the second son Wang Kunba. In addition, there is a niece.
On the thirteenth day of the first month, it was sunny.
Zeng Guofan came back from his elder sister's house and invited Peng Baicheng and Peng Shouqi to come home. Experts sold the land to his uncle Zeng Hengyang (Zeng Guofan is now admitted to Jinshi, and relatives and friends in his hometown hope that he can come forward. Zeng Guofan thought it was not good for him, so he thought of letting Peng Baicheng intervene. I have just come into contact with this kind of affairs, and there are still some ideological conflicts. There were many guests at home on this day, and there were more than a dozen seats. Zhu Yaojie specially sent someone to handle two important things: First, he asked Zeng Guofan to write a document on pawning Zhuangtian on the 24th, with Zhu Yaojie as the recipient and Zhu Lianger as the code; Second, Zhu Yaojie married IV and married Zhu Yongchun, the son of Zhu Fenghe of Zimenqiao. Zhu Yaojie had already said that Zeng Guofan believed him and the whole family agreed to this marriage. This time, Zhu Yaojie sent someone to deliver the man's Geng Tie. According to rural customs, when the eight characters are combined, the marriage is completed. In the evening, Zeng Guofan wrote to Zhu Yaojie, thanking him for caring about his sister's marriage, and expressing his inner difficulties, unwilling to participate in Zhu Lianger's field work. Zeng Guofan first posted the Geng paste of the fourth sister. Knowing Yao Jie's character, knowing that he doesn't like asking for help at ordinary times, and fearing that he has ideas, he wrote to Zhu Xiaoshan again, hoping that he would come forward to help him speak in front of Zhu Yaojie. Then he wrote to Liu Xiaxian, explaining in detail why he didn't want to take part in local chores. After writing this letter, it is already the fifth watch.
The fourteenth day of the first month
After Zeng Guofan finished his meal, his grandfather Xing just came, then Zuo Fengge came, followed by the fifth uncle of Jiangnan. Zuo Fengge left after dinner, and so did Grandpa Xing Gang. Zhu Yaojie came to Zeng's home in Shen Shi. The purpose of his visit was to invite Zeng Guofan to participate in Zhu Lianger's peasant work. Zhu Yaojie is very concerned about Zhu Lianger's Zhuangtian. If he doesn't want it, Zhu Lianger will definitely give it to someone else. This is the last thing he wants to accept. So he is a man of his word, and Zeng Guofan should be invited to come forward.
Sixteenth day of the first month
Zeng Guofan had breakfast at his brother-in-law's house, and then went to his father-in-law's house to pay New Year's greetings. You can't just go to your father-in-law's house. He got into the sedan chair with his servant and four people. Eight bearers take turns, and a servant leads the way in front of the sedan chair. Such ostentation and extravagance provoked people along the way to stop and watch and admire. In order to welcome Hanlin's son-in-law, my father-in-law, Ouyang Ningzhi, gave eight banquets at Ouyang Ancestral Temple, and all my relatives came to pay tribute. At the end of the banquet, the sedan chair was paid 460p. The next day, I went to Ouyang Ancestral Hall. Although the sedan chair cost only 400 yuan, I gave a gift of 12800 yuan. Zeng Guofan was very modest, so he sent a servant to send twelve thousand coppers home that day. Master Hanlin is a famous gold-lettered signboard, which has been taken care of by relatives and friends.
17, sunny. After dinner, Zeng Guofan went to Ouyang Ancestral Temple with his father-in-law. The Vietnamese people were very enthusiastic and invited eight people to accompany them. The attendees are all people with status in the family. That night, Zeng Guofan and his father-in-law slept in Ouyang Ancestral Temple.
18, the weather turned cloudy, and Zeng Guofan went from Ouyang Ancestral Temple to Zengjia Ancestral Temple in Miaoshan. In the evening, Zeng Guofan and his grandfather Xing Ganggong slept in Xu Wang's home, which is far from the ancestral temple of the Zeng family.
On the early morning of the 19th day of the first month, three grandparents and grandchildren left the ancestral hall of the Wang family.
The 20th was Zeng Guofan's most tiring day. Surrounded by his people, he went to the grave hill to sweep the graves of all ancestors surnamed Zeng. Fortunately, although the sky was cloudy, it didn't rain.
2 1 day, the ancestral graves were swept. Invite people with other surnames to dinner today. The graves of the ancestors of the Zeng family are scattered everywhere. To be safe, you must take care of people with other surnames. This banquet is invited every year, and many people are invited. This year, the management of the Tseng ancestral hall is the hardest, and every household has to invite it. It is very serious to miss a family a little-as long as he works hard to graze cattle in the grave, or deliberately encroach on the grave to grow crops, he can make your ancestors under the grave restless. At the dinner party, people with other surnames came to the ancestral hall one after another, and more than forty seats were all invited. During the dinner, Zeng Guofan kept waving and followed his elders to greet people back and forth.
23 rd, sunny.
Zeng Guofan went out for five days and returned home to Shen You. As soon as I entered the room, I learned that my little sister was not feeling well. It turned out that the whole family had been vaccinated against acne before the Chinese New Year, and most people's reactions were within the normal range. Only Man Mei's wound didn't heal and he didn't have a fever, which is a bad sign. In addition, Zeng Zhendi, the son of Zeng Guofan, has a fever from time to time. It was Uncle Zeng Chundi who first discovered that Man Mei's situation was wrong. At that time, his condition was not serious, so he sent servants and Wang to invite rural doctors Liu Laikan and Zhen Xuan overnight.
On 24th, Zeng Guofan didn't go out at home.
Man Mei began to appear small spots, and the color was very red. Liu said that this was "a child coming to save his mother" and asked his family to give ginseng and deer glue.
25th, sunny day.
Man Mei is still ill, but Zeng Guofan's son Zhen Di has a fever, but he doesn't have many rashes. Experienced people know that a rash will be fine after three days of fever. This is definitely not a good sign that these two aunts and nephews broke out in a rash after only one night of fever! Seventeen days ago, Zeng Guofan made an appointment to talk to Zhu Yaojie's house. Now that this happened at home, he couldn't go, so he wrote a letter and sent Wang to Zhu Yaojie's house, postponing the time to Zhu's house until the 27th.
It rained on the 26th.
Man Mei's acne is getting worse and worse. His son Zhen Di's acne is dense and abnormal, because he is not feeling well and has been crying. Zeng Guofan and his family were so anxious that they sent many people to invite Liu over, but there was no news. Late at night, the wind is very strong, just like the mood of a family. Man Mei's cheeks were dripping with red blood because he felt uncomfortable picking up tattered pox. It's really hard!
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