What does Zeng Guofan mean when he talks about the suona and the sad suona?

Please see the fourth paragraph below. My understanding is: usually being busy and working takes a lot of energy, and blowing the suona too much hurts your energy. .

Suona is just a musical instrument. It does not refer to anything else here and has no meaning.

Zeng Guofan’s tutor quit drinking

Jiang Yanfeng

Jiang Yanfeng

The late Qing government held a Manchu-Han banquet to In order to show the "ZTE" atmosphere, Zeng Guofan was specially allowed to toast the emperor on behalf of the ministers. This kind of treatment of the foreman's toast can be described as the most respectable minister! In fact, Zeng Guofan not only drank moderately, but also advocated abstinence from alcohol in his tutoring.

Zeng Guofan admired Wang Xizhi's couplet "Looking at the sword while drinking, burning incense and reading at night". He sat in meditation every day and reflected on his own mistakes, "taking wine to understand what is today, and reading books to understand what was wrong yesterday." During his military career, he persisted in reading, writing diaries every day, and writing books. He once demonstrated his ambitions with a wine couplet he titled, which goes: "Brewing five hundred buckets of wine and studying for thirty years will be enough; making a fur coat thousands of feet tall and building thousands of mansions, when will it be possible?" "?" He also used books and wine as a couplet for Zhang Xirong's former residence: "Thousands of volumes of books were spent in passing the years, and a bottle of Xiaoao Qiankun wine." Zeng Guofan lived a frugal life, getting up early and going to bed late, eating simple clothes and coarse food. At that time, some people called him "Yipin Prime Minister" ("Yipin" means "Yixin"). When he was the governor of Liangjiang, whenever he had a visitor, he would ask Ma Bian to go to the hotel to buy a few kilograms of cheap Shaoxing wine, buy a bag of peanuts, and have a drink with him, and they would talk all night long. At that time, most middle-class and above-average families followed Confucius's teaching of "Don't sell wine in the market" and paid attention to brewing their own wine. However, Zeng Guofan, who was a highly respected minister, used cheap wine produced in market workshops for his own use and to entertain guests. His frugality in daily life is evident. .

The Zeng family has been farming for many generations and is a typical farming and studying family. Zeng Guofan asked the younger generation to "offer a stick of incense to their ancestors, and they must be sincere and respectful; teach their descendants two righteous paths, both farming and studying." The family letter said: " Historically, in long-standing families, men must pay attention to farming and reading, while women must pay attention to spinning, wine and food.” His wife, Ouyang, led the female family members in the family to weave, brew wine, and make pickles every day. She was a diligent female worker and never slackened off. Although he was the governor of Liangjiang, he did not worry about it and personally made a homework list for his son, nephew, daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law at home. The content is: after breakfast, make side dishes, snacks, wine, and sauce.

Zeng Guofan warned women at home to pay attention to things such as drinking and eating. The reason for this was stated in his home letter: "Si Qian's poems talk about matters in the emperor's residence, and the most important thing for women is drinking and eating. The family hexagram is divided into two Yao is the main part, the emphasis is on the middle part, and the inner one is about wine and food. Therefore, I have repeatedly taught my children, wives, and relatives to take charge of the middle part.” Zeng Guofan taught his children to "be respectful to others and to be relaxed when drinking and eating." In March of the 10th year of Xianfeng's reign, he said in a letter to his brothers: "Too much labor on weekdays hurts the essence, the suona hurts the qi, and too much alcohol hurts the spleen. From now on, stop doing this." Three things: Suona and eating alcohol must be stopped as early as possible, and this trend must not be allowed." Sometimes when his younger brothers did something well, he would toast him in the letter to celebrate. For example, in the letter to his younger brother in the first month of the 10th year of Xianfeng, he said: "The funeral of Zu Kao's concubine was actually done last winter, how fast it was! I got a good harvest without any benefit at home, but I just followed the example of my third father, saying "Thank you so much". Yu Jingcheng gave me a few glasses of wine and said, "It's the most hard work, and my good intentions are rewarded!" I also offered my brother Yuan eight glasses of wine, and said: Talented and careful, he is the hero of the family!" In the second part of the long historical novel "Zeng Guofan", "Wild Burning" also records that Zeng Guofan was very angry when he discovered that some soldiers of Hunan Yong were drunk and prostituted at the station. , the story of strictly ordering his brother Zeng Guoquan to remove or close all restaurants, opium houses and brothels outside the trenches to rectify the military's prestige and morale.

Not long ago, Hunan Daily Publishing Co., Ltd. and Guizhou Yelang Liquor Co., Ltd. jointly launched "Zeng Guofan Liquor", and the name of the wine was personally inscribed by Xiong Qingquan, the former Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee. Less than a month after its launch, it sold nearly one million yuan. Now the wine has been sold throughout Sanxiang, and people generally report that the wine is of good quality and is not overpowering. During a recent visit to Zeng Guofan's former residence, the company's general manager Liu Heping said that although Zeng Guofan's wine is good, we must follow Zeng Guofan's instructions to abstain from drinking and drink in moderation and not to excess.

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