On The Value Of Chinese Ancient Family's Instructions In The Moral Construction Of Modern Family

China is famous for its family education in the world .Our country not only owns its good tradition of attaching importance to family education that has continued and stored up for thousands of years, but also accumulates abundant family educational experiences. There is characterized by early education and attaching importance to family education in the expansion and polychrome cultural forest. Ancient family's instruction in our country emerged with the presence of family, was a way of family education, enriched and perfected with the family's consolidation and development. These instructions coagulated family educational experiences in our country, and were householder's sapiential rime and assembling of teaching methods. Today when we attach importance to quality-oriented education and call for family virtues, in order to enhance our national cultural and moral attainments, especially to strengthen modern family's moral construction, erect good family style, avoid leading cadres' corruption, and even to the whole national mental civilization's construction, it is of great use for reference and enlightenment for us to research into the important cultural heritage, drawing in its family educational experiences with reason.At present some social problems and moral crises are becoming worse and worse with teen-age crimes increasing, and social instable factors rising, even crises occurring. One of the main reasons is related with ignoring family education. Our country is a socialist country with large population, therefore in the course of moral construction, while we are advocating social morality and professional morality, we should attach more importance to family morality, such as respecting the old and cherishing the young, equality between the sexes, conjugal harmony, managing the household industriously and thriftily, being united with neighbors. In the construction of family morality weshould not only be established in realism, but also benefit from andsucceed in Chinese traditional good virtues ___especially the"essence" in the ancient family's instructions, so that our family's morality and its education can contribute to Chinese nation's great revival. After all our country's ancient family's instructions were conceived, formed and grown in the long feudalist society, therefore it carried much feudalist dross inevitably. But it never means our nation's cultural heritage should be poured away just as a child should not be poured away with the dirty water. The right attitude is to reject its dross, and assimilate its essence even to carry it forward with modern sense and historic insight to recognize and analyze them.According to the present history materials in hand, Chinese ancient family's instructions sprouted in times of Five Emperors, engendered in the Xizhou Dynasty, molded in the Xihan Dynasty, matured in both the Sui and Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song and Yuan Dynasty, perfected in the Ming and Qing Dynasty. Their contents are complicated, mentioning cultivating oneself, regulating well one's family, governing well one's state, bringing peace to the world, and the ways one gets along with others, etc. The thesis firstly reviews the origin of ancient family's instructions and its main contents, then combining with reality, analyzes the main bases for looking into the modern value of ancient family's instructions. In the end it inherits the instructions critically with the principles of making the ancient serve the present and rejecting the dross and assimilating the essence, sets up and perfects modern family's moral construction system, drawing lessons from the valuable ancient instructions both of its contents and methods with the terminal purpose of strengthening modern family's moral construction.