How many words of Zhu Zi's maxims for ruling a family

Zhu Zi's maxims for ruling a family 525 words.

The Zhu Zi Family Trainings, also known as Zhu Zi's Words for Ruling a Family and Zhu Bailu's Words for Ruling a Family, is an enlightening textbook that focuses on family morality. With only 525 words, Zhu Zi's Family Trainings elucidates the way of cultivating oneself and governing one's family, making it a masterpiece of family education. In it, many of the contents inherit the excellent features of traditional Chinese culture, such as respecting teachers and elders, being diligent and thrifty, and neighborly harmony, which are still relevant today.

The Zhu Zi Family Trainings, with the aim of "cultivating one's moral character" and "keeping the family in order", is a collection of Confucian ways of being a man and dealing with the world, which is y rooted in thought and has a broad and profound meaning. The whole text of Zhu Zi Family Trainings is intended to advise people to be diligent and thrifty, to keep the family in peace and to keep themselves in line with the law. The idea of moral education, which has been developed in China for thousands of years, is expressed in the form of quotations and aphorisms.

Can be transmitted orally, can also be written into couplets and banners hung in the door, halls and apartments, as a motto for governing the family and educating the children, therefore, it is very much for the officials, gentry and the scholarly family to be happy with, and since its inception it has been widely circulated, and has been respected by successive generations of scholars as a "scripture for governing the family", and it once became one of the compulsory reading books for children from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. The book has been widely circulated since its inception, and was honored as the "book of the family" by the scholars and rulers of all generations.

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The Zhu Zi Family Trainings talk about security, hygiene, diligence and thrift, preparedness, food and drink, housing and fields, marriage, beauty, ancestor worship, study, education, wealth and alcohol, abstinence from sex, compassion, modesty, non-contention, friendship, introspection, goodness, tax payment, officialdom, conformity, contentment, and accumulation of virtues from the perspective of ruling a family.

The core is to make people become a righteous and upright person, who knows books and reasoning, who lives a rigorous life, who is tolerant and kind, and who has lofty ideals, which is also the consistent pursuit of Chinese culture. If we really practice this, we will not only become a person with noble sentiments, but also be able to build a beautiful family, and then build a harmonious society.

The reason why Zhu Zi's Family Tradition has had such a great influence in China over the past three centuries is that, in addition to its centralization of the ideals and pursuits of the Chinese people in cultivating themselves and their families, more importantly, it uses a form of language parallelism that is both easy to understand and to speak. It is easy to be accepted by the general public, and the parallelism of the language is catchy and easy to memorize.