To sweep the court at dawn means to get up at dawn and clean the court yard.
Zhu Yongchun's "Zhu Zi's Family Instructions" and "Zhu Bailu's Family Management Motto", with 524 words in full text, are easy to understand, concise and well-prepared, and catchy. Since they came out, they have spread like wildfire, and become the classic family instructions of godsons who are well-known and well-known in the Qing Dynasty. Some of these epigrams, such as "a porridge and a meal, are not easy to think about;" Half a silk and half a wisp, persistent thinking about material difficulties, and "it is advisable to plan ahead for a rainy day, and dig a well without being thirsty" are still of educational significance today.
the motto of managing the family aims at "cultivating one's morality" and "keeping one's family in order", which is a collection of Confucian ways of life, with deep roots and profound meanings. Throughout the motto of managing a family, it is intended to persuade people to be diligent in managing a family and keep their own place. Talking about China's moral education thought formed over 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 doors, halls and bedrooms, as the motto of managing families and educating children.
About the author:
Zhu Bailu (1627-1698), formerly known as Zhu Yongchun, was named Bailu, a native of Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province (now Kunshan City) in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Famous philosopher and educator. His father, Zhu Jihuang, was a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. In 1645, in the second year of Qing Shunzhi, he defended Kuncheng against the Qing army. The city was broken and he threw himself into the river. Zhu Bailu devoted himself to studying since childhood. He was a scholar and devoted himself to his career. After the Qing Dynasty entered Guanming and died in Ming Dynasty, he no longer sought fame. He lived in the countryside to teach students and devoted himself to Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism, which advocated knowing and doing together, and was quite famous for a while.
Kangxi called up many times, but all of them were rejected by his husband. I have written dozens of textbooks in clear letters for teaching. He devoted himself to the study of Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism, advocated that knowledge and practice go hand in hand, and put it into practice. During Kangxi's reign, he insisted on the recommendation of learned words, and later refused the township drinking guests recommended by local officials. Together with Xu Fang and Yang Wuxia, they are known as "Three Senior Scholars in Wuzhong". In the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi (AD 1698), he was ill, and before he died, he told his disciples: learning lies in life, and career lies in loyalty and filial piety.