One porridge and one meal should be remembered as hard-earned, and every trace of constant thought is clear when material resources are difficult? Zhu Baisheng's famous saying comes from "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions". The original text is "One porridge and one meal, when you think about the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a thread, always thinking about the difficulty of material resources." And the meaning of this sentence is that for a bowl of porridge, every meal must be thought of how hard it was, and every stitch of Si County's sewing on the clothes must be thought of how difficult it was. The main purpose is to warn people to cherish and not to waste.

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), and a native of Kunshan County, Jiangsu in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. 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, he defended Kuncheng against the Qing army. After the city was broken, he threw himself into the river and committed suicide. Zhu Bolu devoted himself to studying since childhood and became a scholar, aiming at an official career. When the Qing Dynasty entered the Guan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty died, they no longer sought fame. Instead, they stayed in their hometown to teach students and devoted themselves to Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which advocated the simultaneous advancement of knowledge and action. For a time, he was quite famous.

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"Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" is an enlightenment textbook focusing on family morality. "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" has only 525 words. It incisively explains the way of self-cultivation and family management. It is a famous work on family education. Among them, many contents inherit the excellent characteristics of traditional Chinese culture, such as respecting teachers, being diligent and thrifty, and living in harmony with neighbors, etc., which still have practical significance today.

"Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" talks about safety, hygiene, thrift, preparation, food, housing, marriage, beauty, ancestor worship, reading, education, wealth and wine, and sexual discipline from the perspective of running a family. , caring, modesty, non-controversy, making friends, self-examination, doing good, paying taxes, serving as an official, adapting, being content, and accumulating virtue, etc. The core is to make people become upright, knowledgeable, rigorous in life, and tolerant A kind-hearted person with lofty ideals.