生活在清朝同、光时期的左宗棠,在反对帝国主义对中国侵略的斗争中,是一个坚定的爱国主义者;在改革某些不合理的军事、政治制度,倡导发展边疆经济文化方面,他又是一个坚定的突践者。在清王朝的所谓“同治中兴”的四大风云人物(曾国藩、李鸿章、胡林翼、左宗棠)中,唯有左宗棠主张对外与帝抗争,对内改革某些不合理制度。虽然左宗棠的 Zuo Zongtang, who lived in the same period of the Qing Dynasty and was a light figure, was a staunch patriot in fighting the imperialists’ invasion of China. In reforming some irrational military and political systems and advocating the development of the border economy and culture, He is another committed man. Among the four leading figures in the Qing dynasty, the so-called “Tongzhi ZTE” (Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Hu Linyi and Zuo Zongtang), only Zuo Zongtang advocated fighting with the emperor and reforming some unreasonable systems internally. Although Tso Tung’s