YuanCai And Yuan Family Education Research

The traditional family precept is a product of Chinese ancient patriarchal autocraticsociety and a literature form based on the content of elders managing the family andeducating their descendents.Chinese family precepts, sprouting in Parlance recorded time,emerging in West Zhou, molding in Han dynasty and maturing in Sui and Tang dynasties, inSong dynasty, it became prosperous, producing and passing down many famous familyprecepts literature.This article aims at the famous family precept monograph Yuan Family Education forresearch, and focuses on the following three aspects: First, this article combs the life of theauthor, the writing background, the visions and the stylistic rules of Yuan Family Education.Second, this article analyses the ideological content reflected by Yuan Family Education, andemphasizes the inheritance and innovation of it. The third, discuss its value and influence onthe society according to the feature of Yuan Family Education.In the aspect of managing the family, Yuan Cai put forward the sedimentary thoughtvenerating the harmony of relatives. First, the thought the nature of everyone is not the same,so we can’t force the disciples obey their parents.“The things, must harmonious”, so it can be“No trouble with dispute”. Second,“parents love children equally”, parents shouldn’t bepartial to any child due to individual love or hate, and also the children should give presents tothe elders with a sincere heart. Third, he thought that another important principle of familyharmony is the average distribution of property. Many family disputes were due to theselfishness of parents or unfair distribution of wealth. Finally, Yuan Cai put forward thefamily harmony rest with “Tolerance and forgiveness”,“Family which lasts longer ispatience”.In terms of teaching children, Yuan Cai first is father’s responsibility for teaching. Fathercannot allow the children to abandon their studies no matter rich or poor.Secondly, it goes to love under control. Parents should love children but not to encourageindulgence as well as get the right concept in children’s mind when young, including respectfor seniority, fairness in reward and publish and no partiality. Then, view of women follows.Yuan Cai had agreed with that traditional view of favoring boys over girls. However, thefemale should play a more important role in a family. For example, the female ought to readand write and develop the ability of managing all the affairs of the home on the occasion ofeither the husband’s incompetence or the family accidents.With regard to finance, firstly, Yuan Cai proposes thrifty and opposes to extravagance.Secondly, although deeply influenced by Confucianism, Yuan Cai will not insist on theconcept of gentlemen not talking about profit. Instead, I will encourage financing and a lot offeasible advice has been put forward.