左宗棠是饱受争议的历史人物。他曾镇压过太平天国、捻军起义,但在沙俄等外强侵占新疆时,他请缨出征,抬棺西行,以与国土共存亡的决心收复了新疆,书写了晚清残阳中最辉煌的一笔。他白发临边,屯田垦荒,兴修水利,广栽树木,将边塞荒漠变得庄稼遍地,树木成荫。浙江巡抚杨昌浚特赋诗曰:“大将筹边尚未还,湖湘子弟满天山。新栽杨柳三千里,引得春风度玉关。” Zuo Zongtang is a controversial historical figure. He had suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Nien Army uprising. However, when Tsarist Russia and other foreign powers invaded Xinjiang, he invited him to launch his expedition and hold his coffin westbound. He recovered Xinjiang with determination to coexist with the country and wrote the most glorious record of the late Qing Dynasty . His white-haired edge, Tuntian reclamation, water conservancy construction, planting trees, the border will become deserted crops, trees. Zhejiang Governor Yang Changjun special Fu Poetry said: “generals have not yet raised the grass-roots, Hunan Tianshan Mountains children. New planted willow three thousand miles, attracted the Spring Yuguan.”