Comparative Study On Yan Family Introduction And Zeng Guofan's Family Education Ethics

Yan Zhitui's representative works,Yan Family Instructions was honored as"ancestor of the Chinese family introductions". Zeng Guofan wrote thousands of letters and diaries, pushing the traditional Chinese officialdom family introductions into a peak. Both of them contain deep family education ethics. From Yan Zhitui to Zeng Guofan, the history stretches for more than one thousand years, caparisoning their family introductions'similarities and differences, researching the development and changes, it is meaningful to understand China's feudal society's family education,service for today's family education and moral construction .This thesis consists of five parts. The preface includes the main objects research of the thesis,research methods and present researches. Then define the family education ethics and analyze its importance.The second part analyzes the historical background and causes of Yan Family Instructions, from four aspects to briefly elaborate Yan's family education ethics,such as family education,brotherhood,and couple relationship and family regulate.The third part explores Zeng Guofan's family education ethics. First,it explores production history of origin, again from filial and fraternal ethics, diligence and thrift ethics, enlightenment ethics, aspire to persistence ethics to elaborate Zeng Guofang's family education ethics.The fourth part is to compare the connectivity and differences of Yan Family Instructions and Zeng Guofang's family education ethics. In generally,Yan Family Instructions and Zeng Guofang's family education ethics are both with Confucianism as the core,and the continuation and development of traditional social ethics. They represented the feudal landlord class interests. Their starting point is to tutor to develop their own family heritage mark preach,pay all the attention to family relations'tutoring the training, require their brothers and sons to be filial and fraternal friendly, hardworking and thrifty. But because of their different history backgrounds and individual differences, they have different family education ethics in reading,success and fame. Relative to Yan zhitui, Zeng Guofan expanded the connotation of filial and fraternal ethics from more angles.The fifth part analyzes Yan Family Instructions and Zeng Guofan's family education ethics on today's family ethics construction,the present social consumer ethics and their modern value. we should adopt critical inheritance attitude,taking the essence to the dregs, constructing the harmonious modern family ethics.