Disciples Rules, in the form of popular words and three-character rhymes, expounds the importance of learning, the truth of being a man and the common sense of politeness in dealing with people.
In the general introduction of Disciples' Rules, it says: "Disciples' Rules, sage training: Take filial piety first, trust and love others, and spare no effort to be kind to others, then learn literature. "There are seven subjects, namely, filial piety, filial piety, honesty, faith, love for the public, kindness and learning literature. The first six subjects belong to moral cultivation, and the last one, learning literature, belongs to intellectual cultivation.
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Disciples Rules is a three-character poem written by Li Yuxiu, an educator in Qing Dynasty. Its content adopts Article 6 of The Analects of Confucius, which says: "Disciples are filial when they enter, and filial when they leave. They are sincere and trustworthy, they love the people and are kind. Have spare capacity to study literature, three words and one sentence, two sentences and one rhyme. The full text consists of 360 sentences, 1080 words.
Disciples Rules is easy to understand, rhymes smoothly, has a simple style and thorough reasoning, which can be described as inculcation and has a certain influence on the educational history of Qing Dynasty in China. In the late Qing Dynasty, it became a widely circulated children's book. This book expounds the importance of learning, the truth of being a man and the common sense of politeness in dealing with people in the form of easy-to-understand words and three-character classics, which has almost the same influence as the three-character classics, hundreds of surnames and thousand-character texts.