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.

A porridge and a meal, when thinking hard; It is difficult to keep thinking about material resources.

Family Instructions of Zhuzi, also known as Family Instructions of Zhuzi and Family Instructions of Zhu Bailu, is an enlightening textbook that pays attention to family morality.

"Family Instructions of Zhu Zi" is only 634 words, which brilliantly expounds the ways of self-cultivation and family management, and is a masterpiece of family education.

Many of these contents have inherited the excellent features of China traditional culture, such as respecting teachers and valuing morality, diligent housekeeping, living in harmony with neighbors, and so on, which are still of practical significance today.

Content overview

The full text of 634 words, easy to understand, concise, neat and catchy, has spread like wildfire since its publication, and has become a well-known and well-known classic family instruction for godchildren in the Qing Dynasty.

Some are aphorisms, such as "a porridge and a meal, it is not easy to think when you come;" Half a thread, persistent thinking about material difficulties, and "prepare for a rainy day, don't dig wells with thirst" still have educational significance today.

Zhuzi's Family Instructions, with the aim of "self-cultivation" and "keeping the family in order", is a master of the Confucian way of life, with profound thoughts and profound implications. 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 over thousands of years can be expressed in the form of famous sayings and aphorisms, and can be taught orally.

It can also be written as couplets and hung in the gate, hall and bedroom as the motto of managing the family and educating children.

So it is very popular with bureaucrats, gentry and literati. 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.