Looking At The Society Of The Northern And Southern Dynasty Form Yan Family Instructions

The Wei,Jin,South and Northern Dynasties is a period which is full of division as well as vitality. Yan Family Instructions, a famous work in South and North Dynasty, was regarded as the founder of the family precept. With his great learning and unique life experiences ,Yan Zhitui melted the culture of South and North Dynasty into each other ,which made Yan Family Instructions enjoy high history value and have the great historical significance for the South and North Dynasty research by cutting into the theme by some content Yan Family Instructions refers to and quoting a lot of historical data. Yan made a conclusion about law of the development at that time and recovered the real social mood.The main part of this essay including five sections, the first part is about Yan Zhitui's life experiences, the academic atmosphere and family tradition and the background of Yan Family Instructions. in macroscopic view, this essay will introduce the related background knowledge of the following content and carry out the overall analysis about Yan's life experience ,his time as well as the origination of the Yan family's family tradition.In section two, cutting into the essay from the content of Yan Family Instructions and comparing with other historical data, The writer introduced the way people move up and the Yan's attitude towards person of talents. In this part, I also talk about the declination of rich family at that time and only people with good virtue and great learning can be promoted easily. But because of the war and political reasons as well as his own special life experiences Yan fellow a middle course when he helped his descendants to be promoted. The way he suggested to solve the family problems help us a lot in learning more about the social mood at that time.The section three is mainly about how those rich family declined. at that time. Because hanzu was concentrated more and more, and the dynasty was facing to be replaced, many people's life became more and more awkward which led the people become indifferent about this centralization and began to pay more attention on the benefits of their own family. At the same time, through disclosing the reason of the South dynasty's declination, the significance of civilization upon the family was well emphasized.In section four, there are a lot of conclusions related with Yan Family Instructions in which the difference in learning atmosphere , social mood , life customs and beliefs were well compared and analyzed between the Southern and the Northern Dynasty. At that time , the society became more and more united.In section five, I introduced the Yan's education belief which conclude behaving properly to cultivate oneself, pursuing the studies, doing deeds and keeping good health. All of these four aspects reflected the social background and mood. We can also see the Yan's prediction about the society. At the end of this essay, I made a conclusion about the South and North dynasty as well as the development of society. I also comments on many thoughts of Yan Zhitui.