The motto of the court motto is as follows:
1. Early education is twice as effective
"Yan Family Instructions" says: "When life is young, the spirit is patented, and when you grow up, , when your thoughts are distracted, you must teach early, and don’t miss the opportunity.” Kangxi’s “Ting Xun Motto” also emphasizes early education, saying: “It is better to teach early, and don’t dare to quit work.”
The Eastern Han Dynasty's "The Rise and Fall of Nations and Family Tradition" also advocated early education. The Zhou Dynasty ruled for 8 years and had the longest history. It advocated that the throne should be passed down from prenatal education. The Queen Mother should listen to music, avoid hot and sour food, and the five flavors. The officials and teachers taught the prince, and he became King Cheng of Zhou Dynasty.
2. Determined to achieve things
Zeng Guofan's "Family Letter" said: "Without determination, nothing can be accomplished in the world." "If you are not a sage, you will be a beast; regardless of harvest, But ask about hard work." In his family letters and teachings, there are many talks about determination, emphasizing that after making a determination, you should make mistakes based on it and be self-disciplined and self-encouraged.
The "Yan Family Instructions" also advocates aspiration in education: "Cultivate oneself, manage one's family, and govern the world for the sake of learning."
Zeng Guofan also determined to educate his children by curing laziness. "Letter to the Family" says: "Mediocre people in the world, ancient and modern, are all defeated by the word 'lazy'." "Diligence leads to laziness in medicine." Hundreds of disadvantages are caused by laziness.
3. The legacy of virtuous descendants
Zhu Xi's "Family Instructions" says: "Even if a virtuous person is younger than me, I will respect him; if he is unworthy, even if he is older than me, I will respect him." I will stay away from it. "Zhu Xi attaches great importance to moral cultivation as "clothes are to the body, food is to the food and drink, you can't live without it, you can't be careless!"
Sima Guang's "Wen Gongjia Fan" also attaches great importance to morality. : "A wise man lives in the world and shows himself by virtue."
The Lin family in history valued morality and was good at educating future generations. Four descendants of the Lin family served as prime ministers, and three became Jinshi. The emperor personally presided over 21 palace examinations, and the Lin family was named on the list 183 times. "If there is no forest, there will be no ranking. If there is a ranking, there must be a forest" has become a model of family tradition. The later "Lin Zexu Family Instructions" focused on the establishment of value-oriented virtues: "If a virtuous person has more money, it will harm his ambition; if a fool has more money, it will increase his faults."
4. Teaching frugality to show children
Sima Guang's "Teaching Thrift to Show Kang" says: "It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality." This is for Sima Kang The admonition to the disciples explains the inevitability of "frugality" and "luxury". "Frugality can build a reputation, but extravagance will destroy you."
Zhuge Liang's "Book of Commandments" also advocates frugality: "Quietness is used to cultivate one's character, and frugality is used to cultivate virtue."
Zhu Bolu's "Motto for Managing a Family" also advocates frugality: "A porridge and a meal should be thought of where it comes from, and the material resources are difficult."
5. Loyalty and filial piety. Standing up
Su Shi read "Han Shu" at the age of ten and admired Fan Pang for his devotion to loyalty. "Fan Pang said to his mother: 'My son is loyal and filial,' but Fan's mother said: 'I am proud of my son.'" Su Shi asked his mother, if I were like Fan Pang, what would you be like? Su's mother said: "If you become Fan Pang, I will be Fan's mother."
"Lin's Family Instructions and Family Rules" also emphasizes loyalty and filial piety, saying: "Filial piety begins with serving relatives and ends with serving the country. It moves to filial piety as loyalty, that is, Showing full filial piety to relatives is called great filial piety." "Filial piety is the foundation of one's life. If you are not filial to your relatives, you will not be loyal to the country; you will become a coward in society."
6. The Supervisor Yi Liben
"The Rites of Passing on Mothers from Women" says: "Mencius was born with a virtuous nature, and he was taught by his loving mother three times as a child." "Former Mencius' mother chose a neighbor." "Former Meng's mother defended the place where her children did not learn, and the opportunity was cut off." Meng's mother was the best in learning, the supervisor of children, and the model of mother-in-law education.
The "Yan Family Instructions" also has a famous saying from the school inspector: "If you can always keep hundreds of volumes of books, you will never be a villain for thousands of years." He warned his descendants "Don't be arrogant and lazy, keep the house neat and tidy, and the family style is not good." fall". "Yan's Family Instructions to Encourage Learning" says: "It is better to accumulate tens of millions of money than to have a few tricks. The only way to learn tricks that are easy to learn and valuable is to study."
7. Cooking pigs to build trust
"Han Feizi" records: Zengzi's wife went to the market, and his son burst into tears. His mother says to him, "When my daughter returns home, I will kill the piggy for her instead." Zeng Zi wants to catch the piggy and kill it when his wife comes to market. The wife stopped and said, "I am playing with babies." Zengzi said, "Babies are not meant to be played. Babies are not wise and must listen to their parents' teachings. If you bully them now, you are teaching them to bully them, not to teach them." So he cooked it. swine.
It is said that Zeng Shen’s wife took her son to the market. The son cried and the mother said that she would kill the pig for him when she returned home. After returning home, he saw Zeng Shen about to catch a pig and kill it, but his wife stopped him and joked with his son. Zeng Shen thought that he could not break his promise to his son, so he killed the pig to win his trust.
8. Examine mountains and seek strictness
Before Su Shi wrote "The Story of Shizhongshan", in order to identify the origin of the name of Shizhongshan, he took his son Su Mai to the field to investigate and wrote "Praise for the Ages" beautiful essay.
Su Shi and his son's Kaoshan metaphor said: "You can't see things with your eyes and ears, but just make assumptions about their existence." This is contrary to Yan Shi!
9. The second generation of "Chuifan Edict"
"Emperor Fan" contains twelve articles including "Seeking talents, judging officials, accepting admonitions, advocating frugality, rewards and punishments, and advocating literature", and "Emperor "The outline is also", educating the prince on the way to be a king, and setting an example by one's own example, "safety, prosperity and failure, everything depends on this".
The "Handwritten Edict to the Prince" written by Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was also written to the "second generation" Liu Ying: "Now I regard your writing as inferior to mine." ". Liu Bang ordered the "Second Generation" to study and use virtuous people to rule the world.
10. "Patriarchal law" warns future generations
"Bao Zheng Family Instructions" contains the patriarchal law: "The descendants of future generations of officials who commit corruption and abuse shall not be allowed to return to their own families; after their death, they shall not be allowed to return to their own family." He was buried in the tomb. Those who do not follow my will are not my descendants. They put it on the east wall of the hall as a warning to future generations." This is also called expulsion from the family. Bao Zheng's descendants have never disgraced their ancestors. His son Bao Shou and his grandson Bao Yongnian are all upright officials and have a reputation for integrity.