A Comparative Study Of Chinese And Japanese Ancient Family Motto

With the geographical proximity and cultural contact, both Chinese and Japanese educate their descendants in the form of family mottos. Family mottos are not only closely related to the life of people, but also have a great impact on the social process of the two countries.Chinese ancient family mottos are products of the development of traditional Chinese society. They are the embodiment of social ideology in the field of family and family relationship in the traditional society. They are the composition and reflection of traditional Chinese culture. In traditional Chinese society, most of the moral and cultural knowledge relied on family mottos to spread and develop, so the status of family mottos was more prominent. By combing the origin and the history development of Japanese ancient family mottos, we can easily find that ancient Japanese family mottos can be said to be a positive reference and a faithful imitation of Chinese ancient family mottos. So there are many similarities such as the function of children education, transmission of social culture function, the range of writing content and so on. But there are also big differences in many aspects, such as the history origin and development, the existing hierarchy, the content, the object, the writing style, the continuity and vitality in modern society. By combing the development history and analysing the similarities and differences of the Sino-Japanese ancient family motto, the paper can provide reference for our current family education.The content of this paper consists of five major components:Chapter1:Introduction. The chapter mainly discusses the reasons and significance of selection of the subjects, it also introduces the present situation of the domestic and foreign research, the research ideas, the research method, the innovation and deficiencies of the subject.Chapter2:Vertically comb the history development of ancient Chinese mottos from the imperial family mottos, the prime minister family mottos, the official family mottos and the Confucian mottos. Reveal ancient Chinese family mottos features in the historical development at the same time.Chapter3:Vertically comb the history development of ancient Japanese family mottos from public family mottos, martial family mottos, businesses’family mottos, farmers’family mottos. Reveal three distinctive features of ancient Chinese family mottos in the historical development at the same time.Chapter4:Summarize the similarities and differences of the Sino-Japanese ancient family mottos, including three same points in the purpose of writing, the range of the content and the educational function. It also includes six different points in the origin and development of family mottos, the different existing class, the writing style, the different objects, the different emphases of the content, the continuation in modern society.Chapter5:Conclusions and Implications. This part mainly discusses the reference significance of Sino-Japanese family mottos in our modern family education. It mainly contains three aspects:the emphasis on family education, the emphases on moral, the emphasis on self-education in family education.By combing the history development of Sino-Japanese ancient family mottos, it is easy to find that Japan’s ancient family mottos are positive reference and faithful imitation from Chinese ancient family mottos, but it is not a "photography" version. Japan’s ancient family mottos have injected unique elements of in the process of its development, which makes big differences in the Sino-Japanese ancient family mottos in modern development. Both Chinese and Japanese ancient family mottos contain a lot of valuable education experience, which brings a lot of inspiration and educational experience for our current family education and makes the family mottos more scientific and rational.