Study On Family Instructions Of Song Dynasty

Jiaxun(family instructions),also called tingxun, tinggao, jiajie, jiagui, jiafa, belongs to specific historical documents about for family education . It reflects that the ancestors instruct or admonish their descendants how to manage the family and adapt to the society. It also reflects entrustments between husband and wife, commandments between brothers and sisters.The history of jiaxun went back to ancient time. Each dynasty had some representative works. Jiaxun get great development when the emergence of the Yanshijiaxun which written by Yan Zhitui of Northern Qi Dynasty. As a result of the improvement and popularization of papermaking technology and printing, the jiaxun culture went into a new period in Song Dynasty.The present jiaxun documents largely left over by ancient big family lived together and owed common property, such as Jiafan written by Si Maguang, Jiaxunbilu written by Zhao Ding, Yuanshishifan written by Yuan Cai, Shilinjiaxun written by Ye Mengde, and so on. Those works put particular emphasis on cultivate descendants' moral character, behavior and conducting. Since the influence of commodity, the economic business is a large part of content of Song Dynasty jiaxun. Some jiaxun sketch the contours of domestic business management system, namely patriarch is the centre of authority. household members and Ganren, leaded by patriarch, managed particular business. While another jiaxun lodged a great deal of regulate family ideas preventing the ruined of family. Such as adjust one's expense to one's income, frugality, engage in trade, land leasing and rental.In a word, the study on Song Dynasty jiaxun has great important for our educational ideas and method of today's.