Excellent family mottos and rules and traditions are as follows:
1. Be filial to your parents, respect your elders, teach your children and grandchildren, be harmonious in the village, live in peace, and do nothing wrong. ——"Longgang Bu Family Genealogy"
2. To be filial, you should not be stubborn in front of your parents; to be jealous, you should not be angry in front of your brothers; to be loyal, the rich and the humble are the same; to be trustworthy, a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold will be respected by others; To be polite, follow the rules and not be vulgar; to be righteous, to treat the big things as small as they are; to be honest, to have all your destiny depends on God; to be shameful, a hero is just a piece of paper. ——"Chen Family Genealogy"
3. Rebuild the genealogy, worship ancestors, honor parents, be friendly to brothers, teach children and nephews, be loyal to the clan, live in harmony with the village, respect the elders, show mercy to the orphans and widows, and help the poor and needy. You should do your best. ——"Zhang's Taoyuan Genealogy"
4. Revere filial piety and brotherhood, be harmonious with neighbors, honor scholars, respect ancestors, abstain from lawsuits, heresy, fear of the law, practice frugality, and abstain from gambling. ——"The Origin of the Menan Zhenjiang Family"
5. The ancestral precepts: filial piety and loyalty, etiquette, justice and integrity, integrity in the three provinces, and consistency in Taoism; ten ancestral precepts: filial piety to parents, brotherhood, harmony with husband and wife, Preface to the elders and young ones, respect clan relatives, be strict inside and outside, train descendants, be clear about righteousness and benefit, and be cautious in officialdom. ——"Zongsheng Chongguang"
6. Honor your ancestors, be filial to your parents, be harmonious to your brothers, be harmonious to your clan, be harmonious to your neighbors, teach your children, abstain from sexual immorality, honor honors, be careful about marriage, and pay taxes urgently. ——"The Genealogy of the Cai Family"
7. Maintain filial piety, harmonize the clan, be harmonious with neighbors, be courteous, serve one's own business, uphold one's own product, promote the official's education, promote the teaching of teachers, repair tombs, and refrain from breaking taboos , abstain from litigation, abstain from wrongdoing, abstain from committing crimes, abstain from heresy, and abstain from fear of the law. ——"The Genealogy of Huang Shitan Gong"
8. Filial piety, loyalty and trustworthiness, etiquette, justice and integrity, integrity in the three provinces, and consistency in Taoism. ——"Wucheng Zeng Family Reconstruction of the Genealogy"
9. Be filial to your parents, be friends with your brothers, respect your elders, be harmonious to your fellow villagers, choose your marriage partner, and be cautious in offering sacrifices and sweeps. ——"The Genealogy of Yu Xingong of the Wu Family"
10. Maintain filial piety, harmonize the clan, harmonize the countryside, be courteous, serve one's own business, uphold the rank of scholars, promote the teaching of teachers, repair tombs, and refrain from breaking taboos. Abstain from lawsuits, gambling, sexual immorality, and committing crimes.
——"Liu Family Instructions"