Zeng Guofan’s Family Moral Education Ideas

Moral education of the young people is a problem Chinese education is facing on the contemporary. Solution to this problem requires tripartite efforts from family,school and society.since the family moral education is taken as the starting point for life moral education and the foundation for moral society, so its position can not naturally be ignored. Families play a role in moral education of young people,which needs to learn from the previous’s educational experience. Zeng Guofan’s Family Moral Education on his families in China can be described as a success of moral education in the family.The educational ideology has been remained for the people to emulate and praise, from which we can see the significance of Zeng’s Family Moral Education. Therefore, Zeng Family Moral Education research will help to improve the content of family moral education system, enrich family ideology of moral education,give reference to moral education for the contemporary home.In this paper, literature, expert interviews, field surveys and other methods have been used to study,whose main purpose is, through research, to more accurately grasp the basis of ideological moral education of Zeng family, main contents and characteristics of the analyzing results which show the unique Hunan local culture, Tsangs good Cherished family traditions.Rich Confucianism in Zeng family life is thought to form the basis for moral education; Zeng family’s main content for moral thinking is rich, profound, which can be summarized as Rucker, cultivation, handling, MeiXun four aspects. Zeng family moral education ideas and initiatives are to absorb others’advantages,and to reflect the Chinese traditional culture and development, and also formed a unique culture aimed as a reading sensible gentleman.In family moral education,to individualize people is a principle to use strict rich Letters for education as a means of focusing on knowledge, emotion, meaning, and action,all of which is a comprehensive line of distinctive features.Zeng Family Moral Education in education through love to create morality, through civility to make perfect doings to promote education, through labor to aspire a person, a good character educational tradition of MeiXun educational ideas are worthy of our reference for the contemporary family moral education family.