The Origin of Disciple's Rules

The origin of the Rules of Discipleship:

The Rules of Discipleship is a three-character rhyming text written by Li Yuxiu, an educator in the Qing Dynasty.

It is based on Article 6 of the Analects of Confucius, "Learning to Learn": "Disciples are filial in entering, fraternal in leaving, prudent and trustworthy, and kind to all. Actions have the power, then to learn the text" of the meaning of the text, with three words a sentence, two sentences a rhyme compiled. The whole text consists of 360 sentences and 1,080 words. Disciple's Rules" has a natural and smooth writing style, simple and unadorned, with far-reaching influence, and occupies an important position in the culture of the Qing Dynasty.

"Disciple's Rules" in the book to the "Analects of Confucius" in the "disciples into the filial piety, out of the fraternal duty, careful and trust, love all the people and pro-kindness, line of work, then to learn the text" chapter for the general outline, divided into five parts, each selecting the "Analects of Confucius", "Mencius", "Rites of Passage", "Confucian Analects of Filial Piety" and Zhu Xi quotation edited and become.

The whole text has 360 sentences and 1080 words, covering living, clothing, behavior, moral character, and the way of the world, etc. It is detailed in moral education.

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Influence of Disciple's Rules in Later Generations

This book explains the importance of learning, the reasoning of being a human being, and common sense of politeness and courtesy in treating others, and so on, in the form of a commonplace text and a three-word rhyme. The general narrative of the book says: "The rules of discipleship are the teachings of the sages: first, filial piety and brotherhood, second, prudence and faith, love for all, and kindness, and, if you have any spare capacity, learn the language."

There are seven subjects in this, namely, filial piety, brotherhood, prudence, faith, love for all, love for benevolence, and study of literature, the first six belonging to moral cultivation, and the latter, study of literature, belonging to intellectual cultivation.

The Rules of Discipleship first clearly emphasizes the guidelines for being a human being, in the name of educating us to be filial to our parents and respectful to our brothers and sisters, then educates the people to extend their obedience to their fathers and brothers to all classes of the society, and "to serve their fathers as they would their fathers; and to serve their brothers as they would their brothers", and then educates for widespread obedience.

"All human beings must be loved", the whole text of the "love, parents have poured out selfless love to their children, children should return the selfless love to their parents, this is natural and rightful" kind of tactics, stifling the ability of schoolchildren's ability to think, the ability to critique. It is a product of the unique era after the events of the Qing Dynasty, such as the Ten Days of Yangzhou, and is not a classic of national education, and should be regarded as feudal dregs and eliminated.

On Sept. 6, 2014, Hainan Province pioneered the first traditional cultural reform of prisoners, serving prisoners daily recite and comprehend the "Rules of Discipleship", "The Four Disciplines of the Man", "Taishang Induction Psalm", "learn a sentence, do a sentence", learn to learn to be a human being by osmosis. China's Ministry of Justice has recognized Hainan's experience, and has incorporated the "Traditional Chinese Virtues Education Teaching Materials" compiled by the Hainan Judicial Department into the unified teaching materials for the education of prison inmates for national distribution.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Disciple's Rules