Source: Zhuzi Family Instructions by Song and Zhu.
Interpretation: This is not gossip, but refers to some gossipy women, Rainbow Shiva in Water Margin.
Word annotation
1, three aunts and six grandmothers: three aunts, referring to nuns, Taoists and Guagu; Six wives refer to wives with teeth, matchmakers, teachers, godly wives, medicine wives and stable wives.
2. Media: media, matchmaker.
3. Maid: handmaid.
4, boudoir: inner room.
Extended data
Zhuzi's Family Instructions, with the aim of "self-cultivation" and "keeping the family in order", is a master of the Confucian way of life, with profound thoughts and profound implications. The whole content of Zhu Zi's Family Instructions is to persuade people to manage their families diligently. Talking about China's moral education thought formed in thousands of years can be expressed in the form of famous sayings and epigrams, which can be taught orally, or written as couplets to be hung in the gate, hall and bedroom as the motto of managing the family and educating children. Therefore, it is very popular with bureaucrats, gentry and scholarly families, and has been widely circulated since its publication, and has been regarded as a "classic of family management" by scholars of past dynasties. It used to be one of the required textbooks for children from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.
Zhu Zi's Family Instructions is about safety, hygiene, diligence, preparedness, diet, housing, marriage, beauty, ancestor worship, reading, education, money and wine, abstinence, compassion, modesty, indisputable, making friends, introspection, kindness, paying taxes, being an official, adapting, being quiet and accumulating virtue.
If we really follow this practice, we can not only become a person with noble sentiments, but also build a happy family and a harmonious society. The reason why Family Instructions of Zhuzi has had such a great influence in China for nearly 300 years not only embodies the ideal and pursuit of self-cultivation of China people, but more importantly, it adopts a form that is both easy to understand and pays attention to language. It is easy to understand and be accepted by the general public, while the language is catchy and easy to remember.
Parallel prose refers to the combination of two horses. Parallel prose is an article written in couplets. Sentences are relative. Pay attention to the level and level, and rhyme. It is a style that can best show the unique charm of Chinese. It flourished in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and there were many masterpieces in later generations. Zhu Xi's family instructions are written in the form of parallel prose, and every sentence is a antithesis. Family instructions are not books in the strict sense. They are usually hung in halls and rooms to warn family members, especially children. However, Zhu Zi's Family Instructions has a great influence, and it is a household name, almost a household name. Naturally, it has become one of the Mongolian books that everyone must read in the old days.