胡光墉,字雪岩,是中国晚清时期的一位传奇人物。短短十几年间,他从一个钱庄的小伙计,发展成显赫一时的富商巨贾,他替清政府向外国银行贷款,帮助左宗棠筹备军饷,收复新疆。他创建了名扬中外的胡庆余堂药店,造福了一方百姓。种种的功劳使他官封极品,声名远播。然而最后,却落得个撤职抄家的下场。从一无所有到富可敌国,再到最后的一败涂地,胡雪岩是如何看待自己这波澜壮阔、大起大落的人生的呢?我们现代人又可以从他的这种跌宕起伏的人生历程中得到什么启示呢? Hu Guangtao, the word snow rock, is a legend in late Qing Dynasty China. In just a dozen years, he developed from a small man in a small bank into a prominent wealthy merchant. He made loans to foreign banks for the Qing government, helped Zuo Zongtang prepare salaries and recovered Xinjiang. He created a famous Chinese and foreign Hu Qing Yu Tang pharmacy for the benefit of one side of the people. Various kinds of credit to make him the official seal, reputation. However, in the end, it ended up as a retreat. What does Hu Xueyan think of himself as a magnificent, up and down life from nothing to the rich and the enemy, to the final defeat? What can our modern people get from this ups and downs of his life experience?