Research On The Thought Of Home Education From Yan's Family Precepts

Yan Zhi-tui's Yan's Family Precepts was praised as the originator of Chinese family precepts .The book is nature and easy to understand and spreading far and wide.Yan 's Family Precepts contains profound thought of home education , which is not only the summarry of Yan's family and Yan Zhi-tui's personal experience but also the guiding of his descendants' ways of conducting themselves in society. Yan's Family Precepts has a significant influence on communication and heirship of the tradition of Yan's Family and their style of study.The paper consists of five parts. The preface includes the research methods ,present researches and the main objects of the thesis. The second part mainly discusses the tradition of home education and the background of home education in Yan's Family Precepts, including the social background, the history of Yan's family ,the personal vicissitudes of life by Yan Zhi-tui and the the date of the end product. The third part elaborates the thought of home education in Yan's Family Precepts by introducing the life-long education theory of "prenatal educaion—early education— learn in old age ",the principle of the Confucianist morality to manage the family relation and routine, Yan Zhi-tui's outlook on talented people and his behavior and self-cultivation. The forth part discusses the Yan's Family Precepts' influence to posterity. The last part is the summary of the paper.