1. A man is the backbone of the family. He must be sensible, ambitious, and take care of his wife regardless of his wife.
2. Men are divided into three types of husbands: weak husbands, violent husbands, and husbands.
3. Equality between men and women means equal rights and equal enjoyment. There is absolutely no equality in duties and etiquette.
4. Men must be "strong". It’s not just that you beat and curse people, the man who beats and curses you is an incompetent man.
) No amount of education is adequate.
5. Zhijie couples are grateful to each other and never blame others. The couple in the mind realm are happy. The husband leads his wife to enlightenment, and the wife helps her husband to become virtuous. They will never be angry. A couple in the mental realm is a ceremonial couple, so they will rule over each other! A couple in the physical realm is a couple who beats and scolds, causing trouble throughout their lives.
6. Be content and happy, and take care of your destiny at home. Promote family traditions, praise ancestors' virtues, and educate children and grandchildren to know how to appreciate, be grateful, and repay kindness.
7. To rectify others first, rectify yourself. Parents should first transform their nature into nature and cultivate their nature. Know how to discipline yourself first before you can educate your children. Regardless of whether your children are filial or not, ask yourself whether you are kind or not.
8. The entire family is built on love. A family cannot be established without love. Love is the first condition for starting a family.
9. The husband has the courage to take on the responsibilities of the family and persuade others with reason. If the family makes mistakes, he will feel ashamed.
10. The husband should take care of his father-in-law and his mother-in-law, and the wife should be filial to her parents-in-law. For example, when buying things for the elderly, the son-in-law should give it to his father-in-law and mother-in-law in person, and the daughter-in-law should give it to her parents-in-law in person.
11. If you are destined to love someone, you must first understand the other person’s nature. Fulfill each other and complete your duties. Enlighten the other party to play their part. Regardless of restricting the other party's freedom, you should give the other party happiness and not cause trouble to the other party. Complement each other and understand each other's physiology and psychology.
12. If you are selfish, you will secretly do things that go against your conscience and make the whole family troubled. This is not a good man.
13. Only with the Tao can one have virtue; without Tao, there can be no virtue; only with virtue can there be happiness; without virtue, there can be no happiness.
14. Whether a family is prosperous and whether its descendants are prosperous is directly related to whether the elders in the hall have good roots and merits. If the old man is virtuous, his descendants will be prosperous; if the old man is virtuous, the family will be in disaster, the family will not be prosperous, and the incense will fade.
15. The lucky star of a family is rooted in ambition. That is, taking the happiness of the whole family as one's own responsibility and benefiting the whole family.
16. Whether a family is happy, quiet, and prosperous, the role of the wife is very important. If a woman can be a wife who is as good as water, she will definitely give birth to a son, help her husband become a virtuous person, and have a happy family.
17. Harmony of nature, heart and body. This is the true harmony between husband and wife.
18. Whether a child is healthy has a lot to do with the mother, and whether the child is wise has a lot to do with the father. Whether the child has good fortune and solemnity depends on whether the parents often act with joy and love.
19. Children belong to themselves, society, and heaven and earth. If children are not taught well, it will affect their own family if they are small, and it will affect society if they are large, and they will also be a debt of gratitude from heaven and earth. Educating children well is a heavy responsibility.
20. Promote the merits of the elderly and ancestors to their children, set an example of filial piety by respecting the elderly, and enlighten future generations by being grateful for the kindness of their ancestors.
21. The meaning of a daughter-in-law is to calm down the discord in the family, to be the auspicious messenger of a harmonious family, to treat everyone equally and harmoniously, and to bring blessings to the whole family.
22. A daughter-in-law’s nature should be like water. If her nature is like water, she should be content and always happy. She means to be the root, to support the whole family, and to be harmonious and cheerful. As the happy star of the family, she is filial to her parents, harmonious to her sisters-in-law, and kind to her children, who can help her husband become a virtuous person. So that the husband has no internal worries, can contribute to the society, establish himself in the right way, and become famous and show his family. Not only in running a family, but also in social work, one can abide by one's duties and make contributions. Only then can you have a long-lasting family fortune and long-term happiness.
23. As a husband, you must base your position on the "three cardinal principles". The three cardinal principles refer to the sex cardinal guide, the heart cardinal cardinal guide, and the physical cardinal cardinal cardinal cardinal guide; being immobile (not losing your temper) is the sex cardinal guide; and not having selfish desires. The heart is the guideline; the absence of bad habits is the body guideline. Being angry is a violation of one's nature; swearing is a violation of one's heart; hitting someone is a violation of one's body. "Gang" means to lead, and a woman must be led on the road, filial to her parents-in-law at the top, harmonious to the sisters-in-law at the middle, and loving to the children at the bottom.
24. As a wife, you must first settle on the "three obediences" before you can help your husband become virtuous. "Three Obediences" means that one's nature follows the laws of heaven, one's heart follows the principles, and one's body follows the principles of emotions. What does it mean to “follow the principles of oneself”? Do what you should do yourself.
It is your duty to be filial to your parents-in-law, to be at peace with your sisters-in-law, and to teach your children at the bottom. Don't be afraid of hardship, don't be afraid of difficulties. Don’t get angry, complain, or regret after doing it. "Heart follows the truth": means to get rid of the selfishness that is entangled by greed and interference. All I think about is how to repay the old man's kindness? How to make peace with my sisters-in-law, and how to teach my children? With the good of the whole family in mind, everything I do will naturally be in line with the law. "Nature follows the laws of nature": Focusing on the immovable nature, we must also eliminate the innate nature and perfect the nature before we can be virtuous.
25. As the saying goes, everything thrives when the family is in harmony. The prosperity of the country, the harmony of the society, the happiness of personal life, the prosperity of the career, and the health of the body all depend on the foundation of a harmonious family.
26. Always mention your daughter-in-law’s strengths when speaking, and be grateful to her mother-in-law for her education. If the daughter-in-law makes a mistake, the mother-in-law will quickly come over and be tolerant first, and then teach her behind her back. She must not quarrel with her, and the daughter-in-law will naturally be grateful and repay her kindness.
27. True love has no preconceptions: sincerely believe in someone, don’t doubt the other person.
28. Respect the elderly when you are above, and love the young when you are below. Use gratitude to improve everything and make the family harmonious.
29. A weak man is also called a coward who cannot support his family. Being submissive, saying things but not doing them, not daring to take responsibility, pushing women to the front, and only listening to women's orders.
30. If they are not in harmony with each other, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will not get along, causing disagreements in housework and living separately, causing the family to fall apart and the family to be unhappy.
31. Like water, it follows the circle and becomes the square. It combines five colors and five flavors, and its original essence remains unchanged. It is a woman's duty to be at peace with the situation, to be poor or to be rich, to be high or low, just like water that can nourish all things, but not to compete with all things. When you are in the lowest place, if you are low, you will be low, and you will always admit that you are not good enough.
32. If a man does his job well, there will be fewer disasters in the family; if a man does not do his job well, there will be many disasters in the family.
33. The mother-in-law comes early and understands everything; the daughter-in-law comes late and doesn’t understand everything. The mother-in-law should lead her daughter-in-law to the road, treat her as a daughter, tell her what she doesn't know, guide her, and don't make things difficult for her.
34. Mother-in-law has been a daughter-in-law for many years. When she marries a daughter-in-law, she becomes a mother-in-law. The daughter-in-law is a girl at home, and as soon as she leaves the palace and goes to her mother-in-law's house, she becomes a daughter-in-law.
35. I should love the things my mother-in-law loves; I should respect the people I love. You will definitely make your mother-in-law happy. If you can understand the old man's heart and obey the old man's wishes, you have attained the Tao.
36. A woman has three wives: a strong woman, a weak woman, and a daughter-in-law.
37. A woman should be gentle, have a peaceful smile, and be popular with the family.
38. Women are the mother of the country, the wife of the family, and the wife of people.
39. A woman who does nothing and relies entirely on her husband and parents is called a weak woman.
40. A woman is lazy, blaming and the bastard of the family. Neither a strong woman nor a weak woman is a daughter-in-law.
41. Women are fierce, control men, bully men mentally, speak like thunder, are very strong, cover the sky with one hand, and are called shrews. In such a family, if the yin is strong and the yang is weak, the husband will become prematurely old or even die young, and the children born will be useless.
42. If a woman is busy, a man will be silent; if a woman is not gentle, the family will not be prosperous.
43. If you can do these, your family and everything will be prosperous.
44. A man must keep his word, one means one, two means two, and he must do what he says.
45. Men have their duties as men, and women have their duties as women. Yin and Yang each have their place. Men are based on uprightness; women are based on gentleness. "Strength" means immobility (not losing your temper), and "zheng" means conforming to the right principles. "Softness" must be like water, and "harmony" must be reasonable. Therefore, uprightness means gentleness, and softness means uprightness. Although the terms are different, the spirit is the same.
46. Men belong to Yang, and Yang means selflessness. To be selfless is to express love for a family.
The main word for running a family is peace. -- Qian Yong, Qing Dynasty's "Lv Yuan Cong Hua·Family Management"
Awakened parents should be obligatory, altruistic and sacrificial. --Lu Xun's "How Should We Be Fathers Now"
If a family has one mind, it will have money to buy gold; if a family has two minds, it will have no money to buy needles. -- "Killing Dogs" by Xu Wei of the Ming Dynasty
If you govern your family strictly, your family will be harmonious; if you live in a rural area, your hometown will be harmonious. -- "Jiaochuang Diary" by Wang Yu of the Qing Dynasty
The main word for managing a family is peace.
--Qian Yong of the Qing Dynasty, "Lv Yuan Cong Hua·Governing a Family"
If the children of rich and powerful people fail to succeed, they will lose their tolerance; if the children of poor and humble people will succeed easily, they will be accustomed to strict restraint. --Qing Dynasty Chen Xin's "Xiu Ni Yubian"
It is the father's fault to raise a child without teaching; if the teacher is not strict in teaching, it is the teacher's fault. -- "Three Character Classic" by Wang Yinglin of the Song Dynasty
Cultivate oneself and bring order to the family; bring order to the family and then rule the country; rule the country and then bring peace to the world. --"Book of Rites·University"