On The Content And The Writing Style Of "Yan Parental Instruction"

Dating back to ancient times, Yan Parental instruction, which exerts far-reaching influence, has a relatively complete system for family instructions. Appearing in the turbulent North and South Dynasty, Yan Parental instruction is a landmark in the history of the study of family. It is aimed to instruct and guide the family members, and covers a variety of topics such as education, religions, literature, customs, history, instructions, phonology etc, thus providing a very good reference book for the study of several subjects. Based on many reference materials and the research of some preceding scholars, this essay focus on the content and the writing style of Yan Parental instruction.It mainly discusses the differentials in the content and the writing style, thus achieving the study of key literatural value of Yan Parental instruction.The foreword of this essay associates with some basic information, such as the author's biography, writing background, writing purpose and the writing time. The conclusion has partially summed up all the concrete questions discussed in the book.The main text is divided into the following two parts :Part 1: From the point of view of family instructions, Yan Parental instruction is divided into nine parts, including moral practice, family management, relatives rapprochement, social interaction, education, marriage, job-hunting, health care and cultures. Meanwhile, this essay analyzes the rich heterogeneous characteristics of the great works.Part 2 deals with the characteristics of the writing styles of Yan Parental instruction, mainly by proposing four arguments:1. multiplication of the ideas and values.2. Kind, plain emotion3. Writing structures of narration with argumentation.4. Combination of distribution and union.At the end of this part, overall evaluation of the prose achievement of will be carried out, and a conclusion on features of the natural writing style will be drawn as well.