To be strict with others, you must first be strict with yourself; to make yourself upright, you must first make your own heart upright.

This is composed of two sentences. "Luke others first, discipline yourself first" comes from "She Xin Lu". The original text is as follows:

Etiquette, justice, integrity and shame can be used to discipline oneself, but not to restrain others. Disciplining oneself will lead to few mistakes, restraining others will lead to lack of cooperation, and lack of cooperation is not the way to deal with the world. Therefore, a gentleman blames himself, and a villain blames others.

Translation:

Etiquette, justice and integrity can be used to restrain oneself, but cannot be used to restrain others. If we rarely exceed our expectations of ourselves, and if we rarely work with others, we should not be the way to behave in the world. Therefore, a gentleman is strict with himself, and some people blame others.

Rectify the body first and rectify the mind comes from "The Great Learning", the original text is as follows:

The so-called self-cultivation lies in rectifying the mind. If the body is angry, then it cannot be rectified; if there is fear, then If you don't get it right, if you have joy and happiness, you won't get it right; if you have worries and worries, you won't get it right. Absent-minded, turning a blind eye but not seeing, hearing but not smelling, eating without knowing its taste. This means that self-cultivation is about correcting one's mind.

; If you have worries, you will not be able to correct yourself. When the mind is gone, one cannot see it, cannot hear it, and cannot eat without knowing its taste. This is cultivating the body with a correct mind.

Extended information

Introduction to the content of "Saving Mind Record"

The "Ancient People's Cloud" series is a collection of related books from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Among the works, dozens of short books have been selected and edited, and are not restricted by style, length, author's reputation, etc. The original text is selected from ancient series such as "Songshu Ji", "Baichuan Xuehai", "Jintide Secretary" and so on. Obvious textual errors have been corrected.

The traditional culture of the Chinese nation lasts for a long time, and the historical classics are vast. The long river of history rolls by, and the great waves wash away the sand. The documents that have been deposited and preserved are pieces of gold and silver, which are particularly precious. The instructive and admonishing documents handed down from our country's folk (private and family) directly reflect the moral ideals advocated by people at that time, and more directly and truly reflect the characteristics of Chinese culture than those grand official Confucian classics.

These educational textbooks taught by scholars and scholar-bureaucrats to their descendants comprehensively and thoughtfully expounded a series of principles on how to conduct oneself in society, aspire to be successful, and deal with family and interpersonal relationships. It also involved being an official, governing the country, studying, and The various aspects of self-cultivation and character cultivation as well as thoughts on society, nature, and life can serve as reference materials for the construction of our spiritual civilization and moral standards today.

This kind of famous family mottos are often concise, vivid, straightforward, catchy, and of great appreciation value. As the products of history, they will naturally deteriorate and be mixed with some negative and backward things. We adopt an attitude of substituting and discarding, and do the work of sorting and eliminating them. At the same time, we hope that readers will have correct judgment and understanding.