Admonitions on Forbearance: The Three External Types (The Three External Types)

Author: Xu Mingkui
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The traditional culture of the Chinese nation has a long history, and historical records are vast as the sea of smoke. As the long river of history rolls on, the great waves wash away the sand, leaving behind the preserved documents as pieces of gold and silver, particularly precious. The didactic and admonitory literature passed down in Chinese folk (private, family) circles directly reflects the moral ideals people advocated at the time, more directly and authentically embodying the characteristics of Chinese culture than those grand official Confucian classics. These educational texts for scholars and officials teaching their descendants comprehensively and thoroughly elaborate on a series of principles for conduct, ambition, family relationships, and interpersonal interactions, covering topics such as governing, ruling the state, scholarship, self-cultivation, and nurturing one's nature, as well as reflections on society, nature, and life, serving as reference materials for the construction of our current spiritual civilization and moral norms. Such maxims and family precepts are often concise, vivid, straightforward, and easy to recite, possessing great aesthetic value. As products of history, they naturally contain some negative and backward elements. We adopt an attitude of upholding the good while discarding the bad, having done the work of organizing and removing such content, while also hoping readers will exercise correct judgment and understanding.