On The Family Ethics And Modern Values Of Yan Family Instructions

Yan Zhitui was born in our country in the Northern and Southern Dynasties,who was a renowned educationalist and thinker. His representative works ,Yan Family Instructions was honored as"ancestor of the Chinese family Instructions".At the present many of his research are mainly concentrating on education, sociology, literature, history and so on.And this thesis conducts the research from ethics angle, only to have Yan Family Instructions with the modern family ethics and Classics of the Managing the household Godchild. The family ethics thought searches of Yan Family Instructions . By absorbing the researching results, this article elaborats the family ethics of Yan Family Instructions to understand the traditional family ethics theoretically, aiming to serve as the construction of a modern family ethics.In view of the fact that the majority scholars study Yan Family Instructions from the perspective of education,literature, sociology.This article attempts from ethics angle to conduct the research . This article takes the family ethics thought of Yan Family Instructions as the object of study. The study is based on the origin and the analysis of the primary coverage, and has carried on the excavation from the historical influence, providing profits to the construction of modern family ethics.This article is divided into four parts. The first part elaborates the background which the family ethics of Yan Family Instructions forms . It considers that the family ethics of Yan Family Instructions is closely related to the Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties,which manifested in the frequent political war, regime change frequently. Therefore the importance of family is more prominent, family harmony is more important. This is why Yan Zhitui write Yan Family Instructions.In the second part, the main content of family ethics of Yan Family Instructions are analyzed,which include three aspects:cultivate oneself,which include the sense of strengthening children's moral education, encouraging children to study, molding good home environment and so on; family member's relations, which coordinate the relations including inter-generational relations, fraternal relations and step-parents and step-children of the relationship between,Yan Zhitui not only raises the principle of dealing with these relations, but also discusses the importance of dealing with these relations;the principles of governance family, which include managing a household with diligence and thrift, strict moderately, opposing superstition activities and so on.In the third part,the historical influence of family ethics of Yan Family instructions are expounded. Its historical influence on the one hand displays to the Yan clan, on the other hand to family ethics of all previous dynasties family instructions .In the fourth part, the application of the family ethics of Yan Family instructions in this modern society is explained. First, the part elaborates the conflict and integration between the traditional family ethics and the modern family ethics. Then analyzes the modern values of the family ethics of Yan Family instructions.The thesis research methods are the followings: Literature methodology, historical methodology, Subject osmosis, applying theories to reality method and contrast methodology, etc. On the basis of arranging ancient book materials and consulting other research results, this article is intended to make breakthrough in this aspect: through unearthing the family ethics of Yan Family Instructions , to serve for our country modern family ethics.