Family training, family tradition and family rules mainly include three aspects: behavior, making friends and managing the family, and dealing with others. Common parts of family mottos include: paying attention to family laws and national laws; being harmonious to the clan and the village; being filial to parents and respecting elders; complying with etiquette and correcting names; procedures for ancestor sacrifices and tomb sacrifices; cultivating oneself and maintaining family integrity.

For example, "Zeng Guofan's Family Instructions" once recorded twelve methods of self-cultivation:

1. Main respect: neat and serious, never careless. When there is nothing to do, the mind is in the cavity; when there is something to do, it is focused and undivided, like the rising sun.

2. Sit quietly: No matter what time of the day, sit quietly for half an hour, experience the benevolence of tranquility that generates yang and return, and stay in the right position to concentrate on life, like the town of a tripod.

3. Get up early: Get up at dawn, and don’t fall in love after waking up.

4. Read books carefully: Don’t read other books until you have finished reading one book, read here and there, just follow the outside world, and take ten leaves as a guide every day.

5. Reading history: Bing purchased twenty-three histories and read ten leaves every day, even if something happened, he would not stop.

6. A word of caution: Paying attention at all times is the first priority.

7. Nourishing Qi: Qi is stored in the Dantian, and there is nothing that cannot be said to others.

8. Preserve yourself: save labor, abstain from food and drink, and always take care of your health.

9. You will know your death every day: write down a story every day over tea. It is divided into moral gate, cultural gate, economic gate and art gate.

10. Don’t forget what you can do every month: compose several poems every month to test the amount of accumulated principles and whether the Qi is nourished. Don’t just dwell on it, which is the easiest way to become discouraged.

11. Writing: Write for half an hour after breakfast. Treat all writing and ink writing as your own homework and do not leave it for tomorrow. The more it accumulates, the harder it will be to clear it up.

12. Staying away from home at night means you are exhausted from work and have to abstain from doing anything.

Extended information:

Since the early Han Dynasty, family motto books have become more and more colorful with the evolution of dynasties. The family tree records many famous aphorisms about managing a family and educating children, which have become a good strategy for managing a family that people admire and a model for "cultivation" and "keeping the family in order".

For example, the idea of ??frugality and housekeeping that "every porridge and a meal should be thought of as hard-earned" still seems to have positive significance today. There are many detailed records of family mottos and rules in family genealogies for future generations to follow. Among them, the most praised famous mottos, such as the Yan family motto and Zhu Xi's family motto, are still popular today.

The reason why family mottos are valued by the world is because their main purpose is to promote loyalty, filial piety, justice, and teach etiquette and integrity. In addition, what is promoted and what is prohibited are also important contents in clan rules and family laws, such as: "Frugality should be respected", "Evil witches should be banned", etc.