Meaning: Improper women in society are agents of fornication and theft; beautiful maids and charming concubines are not the happiness of a family. ?

Source: "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" by Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty

Interpretation: This is not the three aunts and six wives, but refers to some women who love to tell trouble, like the Wang Po in Water Margin.

Word notes

1. Three nuns and six nuns: Three nuns refer to nuns, Taoist nuns, and Gua nuns; six nuns refer to nuns, matchmakers, masters, pious nuns, medicine nuns, and steady nuns. .

2. Media: media, matchmaker.

3. Maid: maid.

4. Boudoir: inner room.

Extended information

"Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" takes "cultivation" and "harmonizing the family" as its purposes. It is the culmination of Confucian ways of living and dealing with the world. It has deep roots in thought and broad and profound meaning. The whole text of "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" is intended to persuade people to be diligent and thrifty, manage their homes, and be lawful and self-disciplined. The moral education thoughts that have been formed in China for thousands of years are expressed in the form of famous sayings and aphorisms, which can be passed down orally or written as couplets and banners to be hung on doors, halls and living rooms as a motto for managing families and educating children. Therefore, it is very important. The Book of Joy and Tao for Officials, Gentlemen and Scholars has been widely circulated since its inception, and was respected as "a book on family management" by literati and officials of all ages. It once became one of the must-read textbooks for children and adolescents from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.

"Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" talks about safety, hygiene, thrift, preparation, food, housing, marriage, beauty, ancestor worship, reading, education, wealth and wine, and sexual discipline from the perspective of running a family. , caring, modesty, non-controversy, making friends, self-examination, doing good, paying taxes, serving as an official, adapting, being content, and accumulating virtue, etc. The core is to make people become upright, knowledgeable, rigorous in life, and tolerant Kind people with lofty ideals are also the consistent pursuit of Chinese culture.

If we truly practice this, we will not only become a person with noble sentiments, but also build a happy family and then build a harmonious society. The reason why "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" has had such a great influence in China over the past three hundred years is that it not only embodies the Chinese people's ideals and pursuits of self-cultivation and family harmony, but more importantly, it uses a language that is both easy to understand and sophisticated. Parallel couple form. If it is easy to understand, it will be easily accepted by the general public, and if the language is parallel, it will be catchy and easy to remember.

Parallel prose refers to the combination of two horses. Parallel prose is an article written in the form of couplets. Each sentence is opposite to each other. It pays attention to the contrast between oblique and oblique, and has sonorous and rhyme. It is the kind that best displays the unique charm of the Chinese language. Literary style was most prosperous during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and there were many excellent works in later generations. "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" is written in parallel prose, with each sentence antithetical. Family mottos are not strictly monastic books. They are usually hung in halls and rooms to serve as a warning to family members, especially children. However, "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" has a huge influence and is so popular that it is almost a household name. Naturally, it has become one of the Mongolian books that everyone must read in the old days.