Family Instructions of Zhuzi, also known as Family Instructions of Zhuzi and Family Instructions of Zhu Bailu, is a classic reading pocket book and an enlightening teaching material focusing on family morality. Author Zhu Bailu (16 17- 1688) was born in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He devoted himself to learning since childhood and used to be a scholar. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs and died in the Ming Dynasty, he did not seek fame, lived in the countryside to teach students, and devoted himself to advocating Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism, which was a great fame for a while. Kangxi made many offers, but all of them were rejected. Mr. He wrote The Book of Changes, Notes on Four Books, Words of Advice, Poems of Shame on Farming Hall and Poems of Shame on Naji. The whole content of Zhu Zi's Family Instructions is to persuade people to be thrifty and keep the house, obey the rules and so on. It carries forward China's moral education thought formed for thousands of years and shows it in the form of famous sayings and epigrams. It can be taught orally, written as couplets, hung in the gate, hall and bedroom, and can also be used as the motto of managing the family and educating children. Therefore, it is very popular with bureaucrats, gentry and scholarly families. Since its publication, it has been widely circulated and regarded as a "classic of family management" by scholars of past dynasties. It used to be a must-see place for children from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.
"Family Instructions of Zhu Zi" is only 522 words, which brilliantly expounds the way of self-cultivation and family planning, and is a masterpiece of family education. Among them, many contents have inherited the excellent characteristics of China traditional culture, such as respecting teachers and valuing morality, being diligent in housekeeping and being kind to neighbors. It still has practical significance. Of course, feudal dross, such as some prejudice against women, superstitious retribution, complacency and so on, are historical limitations of that era, and we can't criticize our predecessors severely. This "Zhuzi Family Instruction" should actually be "Zhuzi Family Instruction", which is different from Zhu's "Zhuzi Family Instruction" in the Song Dynasty and should be clearly distinguished.