First, housekeeping, the principles of which are "thrift", "advocating thrift" and "advocating peace".
The second is to do research, and its principles are "certainty", "constancy" and "singleness".
The third is self-cultivation, the principle of which is "not wanting more" and "not loving the poor and loving the rich".
Family Instructions of Zeng Family was written by Zeng Guofan, a great scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. Zeng Guofan wrote more than 1000 letters to his family in his life. The content mainly discusses his family education thought from three aspects.
Appreciation of Zeng's Family Instructions
Family Instructions of Zeng Guofan selects excellent works in his family books, and interprets his ingenious strategy of inheriting the teachings of his ancestors and teaching his brothers, sons and nephews to become adults in combination with his own experience with concrete examples of self-cultivation so as to spread the excellent family education tradition of the Chinese nation and make it beneficial to modern families.
Ceng Guoquan inscribed a couplet, saying, "Family heirloom is good and generous", and "Loyal family heirloom is frank and open" is the way for his descendants to manage their family.