Don’t form cliques when you have similar interests, and don’t steal or counterfeit when you have disagreements.
Comed from Yifa Tong, the instructive and admonishing documents passed down by the Chinese people (private and family) directly reflect the moral ideals advocated by people at that time, more directly and truly than those grand official Confucian classics. Reflects the characteristics of Chinese culture. These educational textbooks taught by scholars and scholar-bureaucrats to their descendants comprehensively and thoughtfully expounded a series of principles on how to conduct oneself in society, aspire to be successful, and deal with family and interpersonal relationships. Thoughts on society, nature, and life can serve as reference materials for the construction of our spiritual civilization and moral standards today.
This kind of famous family mottos are often concise, vivid, straightforward, catchy, and of great appreciation value. As the products of history, they will naturally deteriorate and be mixed with some negative and backward things. We adopt an attitude of substituting and discarding, and do the work of sorting and eliminating them. At the same time, we hope that readers will have correct judgment and understanding.