Related content expansion: "Zhu Zi's Family Instructions"
First, it is not easy to think about a porridge and a meal; It is difficult to keep thinking about material resources.
Simplicity and frugality are traditional virtues, as well as the foundation of self-cultivation and family management. After careful consideration, every grain of rice and meal we eat needs to go through the processes of cultivation, fertilization, irrigation, weeding, management, harvesting, threshing, grinding, storage, trading and cooking. And then you can eat it in your mouth. Every grain is full of hard work and sweat.
Second, you should plan ahead and not dig wells when you are thirsty.
Don't wait until it rains to remember to repair the house; Don't wait until you are thirsty to dig a well. If a person doesn't think about distant things, he will find sadness close at hand. No matter what you do, you should plan ahead and make arrangements early, otherwise you will be in a hurry and full of loopholes if you wait until the last minute. Especially for children, kung fu should be used on weekdays. Don't wait for the exam to sharpen your knife, work overtime to make up lessons and burn the midnight oil. It is too late.
Third, self-help must be frugal, and banquets must not stay.
To live at home, we must be thrifty. Even if you are entertaining friends and relatives, you should do what you can. Don't be afraid of losing face, afraid of extravagance and waste, which will lead to our life and death. True friendship is not cultivated on the wine table; Friends established by eating, drinking and having fun must not be long-term and reliable.
Fourth, three aunts and six grandmothers are the media of prostitution and theft; Beautiful girls and concubines are not the blessings of the boudoir.
Those who gossip in society, gossip and gossip about others are the intermediary of fornication and theft in society. How many family conflicts and neighborhood conflicts are caused by these gossips, so we must stay away from such people.