Luo Zenan
Qing dynasty person CBDB = 65979
Luo Zenan (1807–1856) was a Neo-Confucian scholar of the late Qing dynasty Cheng–Zhu school born in Shiniuwanzhou, Xiangxiang, Hunan. He served as the chief envoy to Ningshaotai Road in Zhejiang. One of the founders of the Hunan Army, his disciples Li Xubin, Li Xuyi, Zeng Guoquan, Zeng Guohua, Jiang Yili, and Wang Hao were all generals of the Hunan Army. Together with Taqibu, he was known as "Ta Luo". In the sixth year of Xianfeng, he died in battle outside Wuchang City.
Early years
His father died young, and his family was poor in his early years. "The family property was in ruins, and the walls were desolate." He could not afford ointment, so he still studied diligently by moonlight and burned rice husks in the middle of the night, or under the snow light on winter nights, and transferred to rural classrooms to teach apprentices. He had excellent knowledge and was a scholar in the scientific examination. In the first year of Xianfeng (1851), he was promoted to be filial, honest and upright. He was fond of studying the military books Zuo Zhuan and the I Ching.
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