The model of ancient prenatal education is Zhou Wenwang's mother Tairen. It is said that she is a woman with "loyal and honest, but virtuous" moral character. When he was pregnant, because of his "eyes don't look at evil colors, ears don't talk obscenity, and his mouth doesn't speak proudly", King Wen was "born wise and learned all by teaching". Later, Zhou Chengwang's mother was pregnant, and it was also "not embarrassed to stand up straight, not uncomfortable to sit down, and there is no evidence to live alone, although I thought about it." As a result, prenatal education was also very successful. Therefore, Confucianism believes that prenatal education can play an important role in people's morality, wisdom and talent. They ask pregnant women to be "polite and obedient" and to be polite in their language. Yan Tui of the Northern Qi Dynasty said, "The ancient sage had the method of prenatal education. She got pregnant in March and went out to live in another palace. His eyes are not evil, his ears are not deaf, his voice is pleasant and he is polite. Jade edition books contain all kinds of gold. " It means that the ancient holy king formulated the method of prenatal education. When pregnant for three months, pregnant women live in another palace, and their eyes don't look casually and their ears don't listen casually. What she says and tastes is controlled by etiquette. This method of prenatal education is engraved on the jade plate and treasured in the golden cabinet for future generations to carry forward. After the ancient queen became pregnant, she lived in a quiet palace and asked a full-time teacher and Taizai to give prenatal education.
When Wang Chong talked about prenatal education in the Han Dynasty, he said, "Life is here, so there is a method of prenatal education. When the child is in the body, he doesn't sit up straight, he doesn't eat if he cuts it wrong, and he doesn't look if he doesn't. When the mother is not careful when she is angry, she has evil thoughts, so the child grows up, is crazy, is broken, and is ugly. " Chen Hongmou in the Qing Dynasty also said, "When a woman is pregnant, she should be careful in bed and do business by writing poems at night. If you feel it carefully, you will feel good and it is also the people's livelihood. "
This kind of feeling good is good, feeling bad is bad, and prenatal education that tends to be good and avoids evil is reasonable. Some Confucian arguments are absurd, such as "pregnant women see elk, but children have four eyes"; "So, pregnant women eat rabbits and children lack lips"; "Is the moon, it will thunder. Those who don't quit Rong Zhi, and those who aren't ready to have children, will be fierce "and so on.
In ancient medical works, there are also discussions about prenatal education. In ancient medicine in China, everyone learned from others and learned from others. The moral and ethical thoughts were consistent with Confucianism. When discussing prenatal education, doctors added the content of prenatal care. For example, Chao's Etiology says: "Those who want to make their children beautiful and upright should look at beautiful jade, peacocks and carp. If you want to make your son smarter and stronger, you should eat barley. " Another example is "pregnant women don't want to see ugly things, rare birds and animals, and avoid their abnormal tastes when eating, and they don't want to see bears, tigers and leopards, shoot birds and pheasants, eat beef hearts, white meat and carp heads ..."
In Song Dynasty, Chen Ziming's Good Prescription has a profound exposition on prenatal education, and the information is more abundant.
Chen thinks that "the baby was born in March" and "there is no clear document". He said, "The baby was born in March. At this time, the blood was not popular, and the image began to change. Without certain instruments, things changed." He believes that pregnancy in March not only began to take human form, but also began to take people's hearts, and people's shape and spirit were initially formed. But at this time, it is very plastic and has not yet been finalized. At this time, when pregnant women see something with characteristics, they will feel it and affect the fetus. That is, feeling good is good, feeling evil is evil, those who are near Mexico are black, and those who are near Zhu Zhechi are black. Therefore, pregnant women "want their children to be upright, solemn and solemn, and their mothers to see noble people and not ugly people." If you want to have a boy, take a bow and arrow and ride a stallion. If you want a daughter, you should wear Er and Shi Peihuan. Want to be beautiful, play with white jade and watch peacocks. If you want to be talented, you must read poetry and be elegant. "What I am talking about here is the idea of pregnant women, which is a kind of self-aesthetic education and cultivation. Make pregnant women have the desire to give birth to a healthy fetus, and hope that the fetus will become a correct, solemn, beautiful and virtuous person. This desire and corresponding behavior will inevitably produce benign stimulation to the fetus.
Chen also believes that the fetus can perceive the sound of the outside world in the mother's womb. He said: "The husband is refined, the gas is coagulated, the fetus is initially formed, and the child is in the womb, which is the same as the mother." The idea of "following the mother" is consistent with the modern prenatal education theory, mainly through the fetal auditory experience to let the fetus receive education. According to the theory of "listening to your mother", Chen added: "After pregnancy, you must sit in a neat position, have a pleasant temperament, always live in a quiet room, listen to good words and ignore evil things. In this way, you will have a long and honest life, loyal and filial. Otherwise, men and women are born as human beings, which is even more contemptible and stupid, and they are called inner feelings because of their external images. I used to be pregnant with Wang Wen, who turned a blind eye to evil colors, turned a deaf ear to evil voices, did not say evil words, and preached the way of prenatal education. " Here, Chen overemphasizes a person's innate composition, but what he said is undoubtedly beneficial to the fetus and pregnant women. Modern science has proved that pregnant women are in a quiet environment and often listen to beautiful and elegant music, which can not only calm pregnant women, but also make most fetuses quiet and practical.
Chen doesn't think pregnant women should cancel their extreme attitude, dare not move or speak, but "gather moderately, measure what they have, know what they are afraid of, be cautious" and "sleep at any time, come with the festival", which plays a positive role in "protecting pregnancy" This is both scientific and practical.