Zhu Bailu (1627- 1698) was originally named Zhu Yongchun, whose real name was Bailu. He was born in Kunshan, Jiangsu (now Kunshan City) 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, he resisted the Qing army and defended Kuncheng. After the city was broken, he threw himself into the river. And Zhu Bailu devoted himself to reading at an early age, and was admitted to a scholar, aiming at his official 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.
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Zhuzi's family instruction is an enlightenment textbook based 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.
Zhu Zi's Family Instructions is about safety, hygiene, diligence, preparedness, diet, housing, marriage, beauty, ancestor worship, reading, education, money and wine, abstinence, compassion, modesty, indisputable, making friends, introspection, kindness, paying taxes, being an official, adapting, being quiet and accumulating virtue.
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