On the whole, Family Instructions of Yan Family is a book with rich cultural connotations, and it is one of the excellent cultures in ancient China. It not only has important reference significance for our family ethics cultivation today, but also has high academic value for studying ancient philology and the history and culture of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. At the same time, the author's wise thinking under the special political atmosphere (troubled times) has valuable cognitive value for future generations.
—— Famous scholar Zhu Weiqi
Yan Zhitui was a famous thinker, educator, poet and writer in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. He was the most knowledgeable and thoughtful scholar at that time. He experienced the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and he was well aware of the disadvantages of political vulgarity in the North and South, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of learning from the South and using it in the North. At that time, Yan Zhitui studied almost all the knowledge, big and small, and put forward his own opinions. His theory and practice have a great influence on later generations, among which Yan Jiaxun is a summary of his life's career, life and study experience, and is praised by later generations as a model of family education with great influence.
As a model teaching material of China traditional society, Family Instructions of Yan Family directly initiated the family instructions of later generations, and it is a precious heritage in the ancient family education theory treasure house of China. Yan Zhitui didn't have Hector's merit and rank, but he has a long-standing reputation because of one of Yan's family precepts, which shows that his family precepts have far-reaching influence. Yan's Family Instructions, praised by Chen as the "ancestor of ancient and modern family instructions", is an important work in China's cultural history, which is not only manifested in the style of "quality and clarity, detail and weight, and flatness without sophistry", but also in the content of "on calligraphy and painting, correcting allusions and appreciating literature and art" and in "Talking about the method of managing the family and distinguishing the customs of the times" Throughout history, Yan's descendants have made amazing performances in moral and academic aspects. As far as the Tang Dynasty is concerned, Yan, who annotated Hanshu, Yan Zhenqing, whose calligraphy was a model for the world and was shrouded for thousands of years, and Yan Gaoqing, who shocked the world and died in the country, all made people have an extraordinary deep impression on Yan's family, which further proved the effectiveness of the family precepts set by their ancestors. Even in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, members of the Yan family continued to be employed as officials, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Family Instructions of Yan Family has been published all over the world since the Tang and Song Dynasties. The reasons are as follows: first, there are few lies in the book, and you don't preach with a straight face; The second is to talk about tactics to deal with the world. There are many philosophies of life shining with wisdom in the book, so they are valued and loved by readers.