Tell us to save, not to waste food, even a little. In short, save, save again.
From Zhu Bailu's "Zhu Zi's Motto of Managing the Family" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.
Family Instructions of Zhu Zi, also known as Family Instructions of Zhu Zi and Family Instructions of Zhu Bailu, is an enlightening textbook focusing on family morality. Zhuzi's Family Instructions is only 525 words, which brilliantly expounds the ways of self-cultivation and family management, and is a masterpiece of family education.
Many of these contents have inherited the excellent features of China traditional culture, such as respecting teachers and valuing morality, diligent housekeeping, living in harmony with neighbors, and so on, which are still of practical significance today.
About the author:
Zhu Bailu (1627- 1698), formerly known as Zhu Yongchun, was born in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. A famous philosopher and educator. His father Zhu was a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Qing Shunzhi (1645), he defended Kuncheng against the Qing army, and when the city was broken, he threw himself into the river.
Zhu Bailu devoted himself to study since he was a child. He is a scholar and devoted himself to his career. After the Qing dynasty entered the customs and died in the Ming dynasty, he no longer sought fame. He lived in the countryside to teach students, and devoted himself to Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, advocating the unity of knowledge and practice, and was quite famous for a period of time. Kangxi called many times, but all of them were declined by my husband. I used to write dozens of textbooks in plain code for teaching. He devoted himself to the study of Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, advocated that knowledge and practice should go hand in hand, and put it into practice.
During the reign of Kangxi, he insisted on recommending learned words, and later refused the rural drinkers recommended by local officials. Together with Xu Fang and Yang Wuxia, they are called "three great scholars in Wuzhong". In the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi (AD 1698), he contracted a disease and told his disciples before he died: "Learning lies in life, and career lies in loyalty and filial piety". He is the author of the Book of Changes, Notes on Four Books, Words of Advice, Poems of Shame on Farming Hall, Shame on Ne Ji and Innocence.