"Get up at dawn, clean the courtyard and keep it clean inside and outside" comes from Zhu Xi's family motto. Get up at dawn every morning, sprinkle water on the ground inside and outside the court before sweeping the floor to make it clean inside and outside; At dusk, you should have a rest and check for yourself whether the door is locked.
Zhu Zi's family instruction, also known as "family instruction", is an enlightenment textbook based on family morality. "Family Instructions of Zhu Zi" is only 524 words, which brilliantly expounds the ways of self-cultivation and family management, and is a masterpiece of family education. Among them, many contents inherited the excellent features of China traditional culture, such as simple life, honest education, thrifty housekeeping and harmonious neighborhood relations. It is highly praised by Confucian scholars in past dynasties and still has practical significance.
"Running a Family" ("Running a Family in Zhu Bailu"), with 524 words, is easy to understand, concise, clear and catchy. Since its publication, it has spread like wildfire, becoming a well-known and well-known classic family motto for the godsons in the Qing Dynasty. Some of these epigrams, such as "a porridge and a meal, are not easy to think about;" Half-silk and half-wisp, persistent thinking about material difficulties, "prepare for a rainy day and dig a well without thirst" still has educational significance today.
The motto of managing the family, which aims at "self-cultivation" and "keeping the family in order", is a master of the Confucian way of life, with profound thoughts and profound implications. Looking at the motto of managing the family, it is intended to persuade people to be diligent in managing the family and keep their position. China's moral education thought formed over thousands of years is expressed in the form of famous sayings and aphorisms, which can be taught orally.
It can also be written as couplets to be hung in the gate, hall and bedroom as the motto of managing the family and educating children. Therefore, it is very popular with bureaucrats, gentry and scholarly families. It has been widely circulated since it came out, and it has been honored as a "classic of family management" by scholars in past dynasties. It used to be one of the required textbooks for children from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.
Evaluation of Zhu Zi's Family Instructions
From the perspective of managing a family, the motto of managing a family is safety, hygiene, diligence, preparedness, food, housing, marriage, beauty, ancestor worship, reading, education, wealth and wine, abstinence, compassion, modesty, uncontroversial, making friends, introspection, kindness, paying taxes, being an official, adaptation, quietness and virtue accumulation.
If we really follow this practice, we can not only become a person with noble sentiments, but also build a happy family and a harmonious society. The reason why Family Instructions of Zhuzi has had such a great influence in China for nearly 300 years not only embodies the ideal and pursuit of self-cultivation of China people, but more importantly, it adopts a form that is both easy to understand and pays attention to language. It is easy to understand and be accepted by the general public, while the language is catchy and easy to remember.
Parallel prose refers to the combination of two horses. Parallel prose is an article written in couplets. Sentences are relative. Pay attention to the level and level, and rhyme. It is a style that can best show the unique charm of Chinese. It flourished in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and there were many masterpieces in later generations. The motto of running a family is written in parallel prose, and every sentence is opposite. ?
Family instructions are not books in the strict sense. They are usually hung in halls and rooms to warn family members, especially children. However, Zhu Zi's Family Instructions has a great influence, and it is a household name, almost a household name. Naturally, it has become one of the Mongolian books that everyone must read in the old days.