Appreciation of Zhu Xi's family instructions in lower case;
Zhu Zi's Family Instructions Xiao Kai Calligraphy 1
Zhu Zi Jia Xun Xiao Kai Calligraphy II
Zhu Zi Jia Xun Xiao Kai Calligraphy 3
Zhuzi Xiao He Jia Xun Calligraphy 4
Xiaokai Zhu Zi's Family Instructions 5
An overview of Zhuzi's family training;
Business Family Training (also known as Zhuzi Family Training, Zhuzi Family Training and Zhu Bailu Family Training), with 634 words, is easy to understand, concise and well-founded, and catchy. Since its publication, it has spread like wildfire, becoming a well-known and household-name classic in the Qing Dynasty. Some are aphorisms, such as "a porridge and a meal, it is not easy to think when you come;" Half a thread, persistent thinking about material difficulties, and "prepare for a rainy day, don't dig wells with thirst" still have educational significance today.
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. China's moral education thought formed over thousands of years can be expressed in the form of famous sayings and epigrams. It can be taught orally, or it can be written as couplets and hung at the gate, hall and bedroom. It is the motto of managing the family and educating children. So it is very popular with bureaucrats, gentry and literati. 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 one of the required textbooks for children from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.
A brief introduction to the author of Zhu Zi's Family Instructions;
Zhu Bailu (1627- 1698) was originally named Zhu Yongchun, whose real name was Bailu. He was born in Kunshan, Jiangsu (now Kunshan City) in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. A famous philosopher and educator. His father Zhu was a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Qing Shunzhi (1645), he defended Kuncheng against the Qing army, and when the city was broken, he threw himself into the river. Zhu Bailu devoted himself to study since he was a child. He is a scholar and devoted himself to his career. After the Qing dynasty entered the customs and died in the Ming dynasty, he no longer sought fame. He lived in the countryside to teach students, and devoted himself to Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, advocating the unity of knowledge and practice, and was quite famous for a period of time. Kangxi called many times, but all of them were declined by my husband. I used to write dozens of textbooks in plain code for teaching. He devoted himself to the study of Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, advocated that knowledge and practice should go hand in hand, and put it into practice. During the reign of Kangxi, he insisted on recommending learned words, and later refused the rural drinkers recommended by local officials. Together with Xu Fang and Yang Wuxia, they are called "three great scholars in Wuzhong". In the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi (AD 1698), he contracted a disease and told his disciples before he died: "Learning lies in life, and career lies in loyalty and filial piety". He is the author of the Book of Changes, Notes on Four Books, Words of Advice, Poems of Shame on Farming Hall, Shame on Ne Ji and Innocence.