Why China's famous Zhu Zi family training has been passed down for thousands of years?

The Zhu Zi Family Trainings is one of the most famous family trainings in ancient China. It is also known as Zhu Zi's Family Trainings, or Zhu Bai Lu's Family Trainings. The content of Zhu Zi's family training is mainly about family virtues, and the whole text is only 522 words. Many of Zhu Zi's family teachings inherited the virtues of traditional Chinese culture, such as respect for teachers, diligence and thrift, and neighborly harmony. Of course, due to the limitations of the times, there were also many dregs of feudal society, such as prejudice against women. It is worth noting that the author of Zhu Zi Family Traditions was not Zhu Xi, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, but a descendant of Zhu Xi. Zhu Bai Lu had studied hard in his early years, hoping to win honors and serve his country. However, he was born at the wrong time, and soon after he reached adulthood, he suffered the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty and the entry of the Qing army. Under these historical conditions, he gave up his pursuit of fame. Since then, he had been teaching in the countryside and devoting himself to the study of Cheng-Zhu science. Kang Xi recruited many soldiers, but he refused them all.

He expressed in the form of quotations and aphorisms the idea of moral education that has been formed in China for thousands of years. Even illiterate people could pass it on to others and write couplets to hang on doors and in halls as a motto for housekeeping and child rearing. This is the Zhu Zi Family Discipline that has had a profound impact on later generations. Due to the merits of Zhu Zi's Family Training, it has been highly valued by the scholars. During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, it was once one of the compulsory teaching materials for children's enlightenment.

From the perspective of the family, Zhu Zi's family training involves safety, hygiene, thrift, preparation, food, housing, marriage, beauty, ancestor worship, reading, education, wealth and wine, abstinence, compassion, modesty, non-conflict, friendship, introspection, good orientation, giving, and other issues of taxation, being a government official, abiding by the law, living in peace, accumulating virtues and virtues, and at the core of which is to make people become bright and upright, understanding and rigorous, tolerant and kind-hearted , people with lofty ideals, which is what Chinese culture has been pursuing. If we really follow this practice, we can not only become a person with noble sentiments, but also build a happy family, and then build a harmonious society.

The reason why Zhu Zi's family training has had such a great impact in China is that it not only embodies the ideals and pursuits of the Chinese people in cultivating themselves, but also, more importantly, it adopts a form that is both easy to understand and focuses on the language of the Ou. The popular and easy to understand is easily accepted by the public, and the language parallel is even catchy and easy to memorize. Parallelism is the juxtaposition of two horses. Parallelism is an article written in couplets. Each sentence is written in two opposite directions. It emphasizes horizontal and oblique tones, is loud and rhymes. It is a style that best reflects the unique charm of the Chinese. In the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties, ekphrasis flourished and there was no shortage of good prose.? Zhu Zi's Family Trainings were written in the form of ekphrasis, where every sentence is an antithesis.