Discussion On The Thought Of Children’s Moral Education From Yan’s Family Precepts

Yan’s Family Precepts is praised as the originator of chinese family precepts whichis the valuable resource of the chinese traditional family education thoughts and thesymbol of traditional family precepts. The book has abundant content, sufficientargument,easy to be understood and used. The children’s moral education thought as theessence of the book cater to the needs of the ancients to educate their children, so it isspreaded far and wide. The research on children’s moral education is weak now, so Ihave the will to continue.The thoughts of children’s moral education comes into being with the followingbroad and complex social and historial reasons: First, the regime is changed frequentlyin the Wei, Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the war and tragedy is sofrequently,so live and safe is become very important; Not only the familial status butalso personal knowledge and mority are necessary factor for one’s official career. As thematter of economical factor, with the help of politics prculiar, the big family’s economydevelops very fast and provide enough material condition for family’s survive anddevelopment; Another factor is culture,the Confucianism is become weak with thechange of regime, so it have to spread in big family which pay high attention to it andthe result is that it continue to develop rather than perdition. The author of the book isYan Zhitui who lives in the same society, the goal of his children moral educationthought is following that: make sure the children have both morality and skills and greatambition; remind the children to keep the family harmonious and united; learn theway of deceased king and develop family’s culture especial the Confucianism. We cansee that the directly goal of the thought is that protects the interest of children andfamily, and the indirect goal is the inheritance and development of the Confucianism.The children’s moral education content of Yan’s family precepts mainly include the following aspects: the ceremony is the basic of moral education, show filial piety forparents and be kind with other people, control one’s words and action withkindheartedness and righteousness. These contents have the characteristic ofcommonsensible moral compare with the doctrinal moral of wise men who live inbefore Qin Dynasty. These content accord with the children’s understand of moralknowledge. People should pay high attention to the time of education and more earlymore better, the view is scientific and had been confirmed by Kohlberg’s stages ofmoral development theory; The position of the ladies in the old time had been improvedgreatly. At the same time, people should know that the ladies’ important function as ateacher of children moral education. Teaching and loving include four frondose ways tochildren moral education, learn moral knowledge, enhance one’s moral sensibility andthink more before speak and action, workout one’s moral will,do something with moralaction, the most important way is love, make them became kindness. Yan’s moraleducation ways is systemic and practice easily and with a certain scientific, and samewith today’s moral education ways in moral knowledge, moral sensibility, moral willand action.We should pursue the essential content and throw away the coarse, keep the rightand discard the wrong when we learn from the thought of children’s moral educationfrom Yan’s Family Precepts. Clear thrust of the education: making the children haveboth morality and skills; The rich content such as teaching children to learn filial pietyfor parents and be kind with other people and do everything according to the ceremony;The systematic way of education: educating and love. In a word, they are veryrevelatory for children’s moral education today.