What is the explanation for farming and reading?

Farming and reading family heirlooms means learning to be a man and make a living. Farming can grow crops, enrich food, support the family and make a living. Through reading, you can learn poetry books, achieve both propriety and righteousness, cultivate self-cultivation, and thus establish noble morality.

"Farming, reading and passing on the family heirloom" is actually a microcosm of a small number of families in China's ancient farming society, or a realm of life, and it is also a beautiful yearning of many working people at the bottom. In our thick yellowing genealogy, there are also ancestral teachings that take "farming and reading" as a family tradition.

Farming, reading and heirloom: spiritual wealth

There is a saying in Zhang Zaijun's family instructions in the Tang Dynasty: "The word heirloom means ploughing and reading; The word "prosperity" means thrift and diligence.

"Farming and reading" has always been a family motto left by traditional families in China. For example, ask Fang's descendants to farm and return to private schools to study after the autumn harvest. If anyone violates the "family heirloom", his private land will be confiscated by the family elders and become the ancestral hall public land.

The idiom "plowing and reading is handed down from family to family", which means plowing fields, growing crops and being rich in grain; "Reading" means reading, knowing that poetry and calligraphy are polite and upright, cultivating self-cultivation and establishing noble morality. It means learning to be a man and learn to make a living.

The traditional society in ancient China attached great importance to farming and reading, and today, the concept of farming and reading is still worthy of admiration. It is not so much an idiom as a spiritual wealth left by our ancestors.