Sun Jipu, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a couplet for his children and grandchildren: I am willing to stay in poverty and practice self-denial; I am tired of observing the popular customs and work hard to cultivate myself.
He Zizhen, a writer and calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote a family motto couplet: In order to enter the world, one must be talented but also chaste, and the virtues accumulated in the family should be accumulated in books.
Modern scholar Wang Xiangqi wrote a couplet for his family: It is easy to repair a broken window paper, but the most difficult to repair is a corrupted morality.