"Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" is also known as "Zhu Xi's Maxims on Family Governance" and "Zhu Bailu's Maxims on Family Governance". It is an enlightenment textbook focusing on family ethics. "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" has only 634 words. It incisively explains the way of self-cultivation and family management. It is a famous work on family education. What I bring to you below is the small regular script calligraphy of Zhu Xi’s family training. I hope you like it.
Appreciation of Zhu Xi’s family precepts in small regular script calligraphy:
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Overview of the content of “Zhu Xi’s family precepts” ：
"Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" (also known as "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions", "Zhu Xi's Family Governance Maxims", "Zhu Bailu's Family Governance Maxims"), the full text is 634 words, the text is easy to understand, and the content is concise and comprehensive , neatly contrasted and catchy, has spread like wildfire since its publication and has become a well-known and popular classic family motto for teaching children and managing a family in the Qing Dynasty. Some of the aphorisms, such as "One porridge and one meal, should reflect on the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a thread, constantly remember that material resources are difficult", "It is better to prepare for rain, and not to dig a well when thirsty", etc., are still educational today. significance.
"Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" takes "cultivating one's moral character" and "harmonizing one's family" as its purposes. It is the culmination of Confucian methods of life and dealing with the world. It has deep roots in thought and broad and profound meaning. The whole text of "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" is intended to persuade people to be diligent and thrifty, manage their homes, and be lawful and self-disciplined. The moral education thoughts that have been formed in China for thousands of years are expressed in the form of famous sayings and aphorisms, which can be passed down orally or written as couplets and banners to be hung on doors, halls and living rooms as a motto for managing families and educating children. Therefore, it is very important. The Book of Music for Officials, Gentlemen and Scholars has been widely circulated since its inception, and was respected as "the book of family management" by literati and officials of all ages. It once became one of the must-read textbooks for children and adolescents from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.
Introduction to the author of "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions":
Zhu Bailu (1627-1698) was originally named Zhu Yongchun, with the courtesy name Zhiyi and his own name Bailu. He was a native of Kunshan, Jiangsu (now Kunshan City), Ming Dynasty A native of Kunshan County, Jiangsu Province in the late Qing Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. Famous neophysician and educator. His father, Zhu Jihuang, was a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1645), he defended Kuncheng against the Qing army. When the city was destroyed, he threw himself into the river and committed suicide. Zhu Bolu devoted himself to studying since childhood and became a scholar. He aspired to an official career. When the Qing Dynasty entered the Guan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty died, he no longer sought fame. He stayed in his hometown to teach students and devoted himself to Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which advocated the simultaneous advancement of knowledge and action. He was quite famous for a while. Kangxi recruited him many times, but he was always rejected by his husband. He once wrote dozens of textbooks in fine regular script for teaching purposes. He devoted himself to the study of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, advocating the simultaneous advancement of knowledge and practice, and practicing. During Kangxi's reign, he insisted on being recommended by the learned Hongci, and later on he refused to be recommended by the local officials as a guest of honor in the local banquet. Together with Xu Fang and Yang Wujiu, they are known as the "Three Highest Scholars in Wuzhong". In the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi's reign (AD 1698), he contracted an illness. Before his death, he told his disciples: "Learning depends on life, and career depends on loyalty and filial piety." He is the author of "Abridged and Supplementary Quotations of the Book of Changes", "Lecture Notes on the Four Books", "Persuasion", "Collection of Poems and Essays of Shai Geng Tang", "Collection of Shai Na" and "Wu De Lu", etc.