Quiet to cultivate one's morality, frugality to cultivate one's morality is a poem in the Commandment, which was written by Zhuge Liang, a politician in the Three Kingdoms period, to his son Zhuge Zhan before he died. Expounded the profound truth of self-cultivation. From the text, we can see that Zhuge Liang is a noble and knowledgeable father, and his inculcation and infinite expectations for his son are all in this book.
The full text language is fresh and elegant, and the reasoning is approachable. With wise, rational, concise and accurate words, the author deeply expressed the father's love in the world, making this family letter a masterpiece of self-cultivation for future generations and selected as a Chinese textbook for compulsory education in China.
The creative background of the Ten Commandments;
This article was written by Zhuge Liang to his eight-year-old son Zhuge Zhan in the 12th year of Shu Han. Zhuge Liang died for his country. He worked day and night for the national cause of Shu Han, but neglected the personal education of his son, so he wrote this letter to warn Zhuge Zhan.
The Ten Commandments is a book of family education and family guidance. This kind of family education and lessons, as a unique ancient book in China, is based on traditional ethics, with elders as the authority and grandchildren bound by morality. It is the carrier for the ancients to spread the thoughts and culture of housekeeping, being a man and teaching children.
The emergence of family education has a long history. The ancient society of China was propagated in the semi-closed warm temperate continent, with agricultural economy as the basic means of survival and patriarchal clan system left over from clan society. These factors make China culture patriarchal, and the patriarchal culture is characterized by attaching importance to blood relationship and emphasizing ethical order.
Family education is the inevitable product of this patriarchal society, and its significance is emphasized in "University". Those who want to govern the country should govern the family first, and those who want to govern the family should cultivate themselves first. This logical thinking of self-cultivation and ruling the country from the inside out makes Qijia in a very important position in this link.
The rise and fall of a family is of great importance, so the ancients attached great importance to family education. Duke Zhou taught his son not to be alone, and Confucius told his son Apollo to learn poetry. These are just oral tutors, which are very random, while the documentary tutors appeared in large numbers in the Han Dynasty.
During the Han Dynasty, emerging aristocratic families expanded their social influence through close family relations, and made family or family rules and regulations in succession. Zhuge Liang's Commandments came into being under this cultural background.