Get up at dawn, sweep the courtyard, and be neat inside and outside. When you are unconscious, you will rest. If you close the door, you will behave well. It is not easy to think about a porridge and a meal. It is difficult to keep thinking about material resources. It is better to prepare for a rainy day than to dig a well when you are thirsty. Self-help must be frugal, and banquet guests must not stay overnight. The utensils are clean, wabi jinyu. A good diet is better than garden vegetables. Don't run fancy houses, don't seek fertile land.
Three aunts and six wives are the media of prostitution and theft. Beautiful girls and concubines are not the blessings of the boudoir. Servants should not be handsome, and wives should not wear heavy makeup. Although the ancestors are far away, the sacrifice must be sincere. Although children and grandchildren are stupid, they must read classics. The life cycle is simple, and the godson should have an upright side. Don't covet unexpected wealth and drink too much.
Don't take advantage of trade with your shoulders. When you meet poor neighbors, you must be more considerate. Being stingy and getting married won't last long. Lun Chang is a good boy and will die soon. Brothers and uncles, you must be more generous. Young and old, inside and outside, should be strict with the law. Listen to the woman, dear flesh and blood, is it a husband? If you value wealth and ignore your parents, you can't be the son of human beings. Marry a wife and choose a husband, not seeking re-employment. Marry a wife and want a lady, regardless of thickness.
Seeing wealth is not shameful, the most shameful. Being arrogant when you are poor is nothing more than meanness. Avoid litigation at home, which will eventually be fierce. Don't talk too much in life, you will suffer. Do not bully widows by force or kill birds by greed. If you are partial, you will regret many mistakes. Laziness and self-indulgence are hard. If you show kindness to a young man, you will get bored for a long time. Qu Zhi is old, but if you are in a hurry, you can rely on each other. Listen to the speech lightly, realize the unreasonable accusation, be patient and think twice before you act. If you argue about something, you must calm down and think about it.
Don't forget to give help, but don't forget to accept it. Leave room for everything and be proud of it. People are happy, not jealous. People should not be happy when they are in trouble. You want to be seen by others, which is not true. Fear of being known is a great sin. Seeing the color, I reported it to my wife and daughter. Hide resentment with arrows in the back, delaying future generations.
The family is smooth sailing, although it is embarrassing, but it is also enjoyable. The Chinese class ended in the morning, but there was nothing left. I was complacent. Reading is aimed at sages, serving officials and serving the country. Keep quiet and listen to the weather forecast. If you do this, you will be very close.
Introduction to Zhu Jiaxun:
Family Instructions of Zhu Zi, also known as Family Instructions and Family Instructions of Zhu Zi, was written by Zhu Bailu, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, and was a famous family education work in ancient China. The full text is only over 500 words, but it tells a lot of truth about being a man and cultivating oneself in the form of aphorisms. Among them, the views of thrift, not greedy for petty advantages, fairness and kindness, being sincere to others, being kind to others, abstaining from lewdness and glitz, and opposing selfish interests to flatter precious things are still of positive significance. Zhuzi's family instruction is a classic reading pocket book, also known as Zhuzi's family instruction and Zhu Bailu's family instruction. It is different from Zhu's Family Instructions in the Song Dynasty, and it is an enlightening textbook that pays attention to family morality.
Zhu Yongchun (16 17- 1688), the author of Zhu Zi's Family Instructions, was born in the 45th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (16 17). His father Zhu was a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. Zhiyi, a native of Kunshan, Jiangsu Province in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, studied hard since childhood. He is a scholar and devoted himself to his career. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs and died in the Ming Dynasty, he did not seek fame, lived in the countryside to teach students, and devoted himself to advocating Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism, which was a great fame for a while. Kangxi made many offers, but all of them were rejected. Mr. He wrote The Book of Changes, Notes on Four Books, Words of Advice, Poems of Shame on Farming Hall and Poems of Shame on Naji. The whole content of Zhu Zi's Family Instructions is to persuade people to manage their families diligently. Talking about China's moral education thought formed in thousands of years can be expressed in the form of famous sayings and epigrams, which can be taught orally, or 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, and has been widely circulated since its publication, and has been regarded as a "classic of family management" by scholars of past dynasties. It used to be one of the required textbooks for children from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. "Family Instructions of Zhu Zi" is only 522 words, which brilliantly expounds the way of self-cultivation and family planning, and is a masterpiece of family education. Among them, many contents have inherited the excellent characteristics of China traditional culture, such as respecting teachers and valuing morality, being diligent in housekeeping and being kind to neighbors. It still has practical significance. Of course, feudal dross, such as some prejudice against women, superstitious retribution, complacency and so on, are historical limitations of that era, and we can't criticize our predecessors severely.