曾国藩是中国近代史上以自己的行动突破清廷闭关锁国政策的禁锢,认真向西方学习而卓有成效的第一人,是明清之际优秀思想家所倡导的经世致用思想的继承者和发扬者。曾国藩的经世致用思想和活动不但开创了中国近代化进程,导致洋务运动,而且对当时及后世都产生了深远的影响。 Zeng Guofan is the first person in China’s modern history to break through the policy of “closed-door policy” of the Qing government during its own operation and study earnestly in the West. He is the successor and advocator of the thought of good and evil advocated by outstanding thinkers at the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Tseng Kuo-fan’s pragmatic thinking and activities not only initiated the process of China’s modernization and led the Westernization Movement, but also had a profound and far-reaching impact on the present and future generations.