In his long historical novel Zeng Guofan, Tang Haoming successfully created the image of a famous non-confucianist and ruler dislocated by the times, a marvelous striving history of Zen Guofan, and a moving tragedy of the times mixed with historical destiny and times background. The description of Zen’s struggling and historical changes aroused the bitter retrospection, deep investigation and comprehensive reflection of traditional culture beyond the dimension of aesthetics.