Author: [Northern Qi Dynasty] Yan Zhitui/author

Introduction: Yan Family Instructions is a systematic and complete family education textbook, and it is the author's summary of his own experience in establishing himself, managing his family, doing things and reading. It has a great influence on the history of traditional family education in China, and enjoys "ancient and modern family precepts, taking them as ancestors." It embodies the great achievements of the previous generation of family precepts, and contains rich, meticulous and far-reaching humanistic care in serious moral inheritance and respect for the elderly.

Comments: The famous historian spoke highly of Yan Zhitui and his Yan Jiaxun. He said, "Yan Zhitui was the most knowledgeable and thoughtful scholar in the Northern and Southern Dynasties at that time. After experiencing the Northern and Southern Dynasties, I am well aware of the disadvantages of political rudeness in the North and South. " Historically, Yan Zhitui, who lived in the Four Dynasties, used a Confucian scholar to keep his family business, which was unique. His life experience has its own reference significance for future generations. In addition, Yan Jiaxun repeatedly emphasized the importance of making progress by reading, and thought that learning should focus on knowledge, and we should not deceive ourselves. This is of great practical significance in today's society where "anti-intellectualism" and "academic garbage" are rampant.

2. Zeng Guofan's letter: a practical model of "three immortals" personality

Author: [Qing] Zeng Guofan/book

Guide: "Caution and independence lead to peace of mind, respect leads to physical strength, kindness leads to happiness, and hard work leads to admiration-these four things are the fruits of your brothers' ten years of life, recorded and passed on to their descendants. Then Yu Zengjia can last forever and have talents. "Lifelong stories like this abound in Zeng Guofan's letters. This book is a collection of more than 100 masterpieces of Zeng Guofan's self-cultivation, scholarship, housekeeping, being an official, managing money, making friends, treating others and keeping in good health, which can be called "the rule of speaking as a scholar and the code of conduct".

Comments: The ancients called "virtue, speech and merit" three immortals. He Zhaowu, a famous scholar, once wrote in Going to School that there are only two people in the history of China who can truly achieve the "Three Immortals": Wang Yangming and Zeng Guofan. It's easier said than done, but how did these two people achieve the unity of knowledge and action? Wang Yangming's Biography illustrates the possibility of "unity of knowledge and action" from a theoretical height, and his literary ambition and martial arts have also left a deep impression on future generations. But Wang Yangming's "knowing" and "doing" are not what ordinary people can know and do, which makes him more like an inaccessible aura. Zeng Guofan is more like a mortal. All his merits and demerits are the result of overcoming the shortcomings of mortals and becoming a perfect person-Zeng Guofan's letter is his experience and experience. Ordinary people can achieve something by practicing according to their own experience, which really deserves the saying "everyone can be Yao and Shun". Therefore, readers feel more cordial to read.

Ordinary people are simple in style.

Noble families and aristocratic families have a deep family style, and ordinary people also have their own family style. Folk sayings such as "a straight body is not afraid of crooked shadows", "I will never do anything wrong, and I will not be afraid of ghosts knocking at the door in the middle of the night" and "holding my head three feet high is a god" are themselves the embodiment of the simplest family style.

1. A brief history of my family: the spiritual pillar of writing a century-old family.

Author: Yu/book

Yu once said, "I have read many genealogies of Yu. Every time I look through it, I can see from the dense names of my elders that they are fleeing, struggling, struggling and suffering from successive disasters. " This surname clearly carries the word' person', and I can't imagine why all my genealogy has become a history of disaster. "As a small branch of the Yu family tree, my family's history is very short, and the three generations of Yu family have also experienced a hundred years of wind and rain.

Comments: A Brief History of My Family is rewritten on the basis of two "memory literature": I can't wait to lend my life. This book is the most complete family record of cultural celebrity Yu, showing his family style as a common people.

2. "Home": Family style in the cracks is still the source of education.

Author: Yu Shicun/author

Introduction: Family History has written 17 legendary experiences of China families from the perspective of "family style and family education serve the present". Each family's family style has its own characteristics, such as: the Lin Tongji family should train professionals to adapt to China's modernization; Song Yao's home is a place to train great talents; There are family meetings in Nie Yuntai's family ... There are prominent people and ordinary people in these families. The biggest gain of reading family history is that it can remind people of their family, themselves and what they want to inherit.

Comments: The current situation of "family style tutoring" is very embarrassing. On the one hand, in the face of the powerful social education and school education in the modern world, family education is almost insignificant, making the quality of modern people almost the same, and rarely seeing the family brand behind it; On the other hand, we have been told from an early age that our words and deeds reflect our own family style and family education, and "having a father but not a mother" is the meanest expression people have for those who have no family education. In this gap, Yu Shicun still believes that family style is the foundation of education. In his book, he asks readers: Do you lack family education in front of China society or famous families or ordinary families? Can you summarize your family style? What words and deeds have you provided to society or children? ...