Millennium education

Author: Wanyan Shaoyuan
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features:
- Learning: Encouraging learning, honoring sages, holding memorial ceremonies for Confucius, establishing charity schools, respecting teachers and traditions, promoting literature and education, cherishing paper.
- Propaganda: Displaying the "Image of Wei" for teaching, the old man ringing the bell, the three elders teaching people to recite the "Great Edict," posting edicts, preaching imperial decrees, setting an example for the world, combining education with entertainment, and rectifying customs.
- Rural Affairs: Encouraging agriculture and sericulture, respecting oxen and returning to roots, honoring the earth gods, promoting frugality, avoiding extravagance, praising the issuance of the imperial calendar, and eliminating ignorant customs.
- Gambling and Prostitution: Warning against gambling and prohibiting prostitution.
- Etiquette: Upholding family ethics and fundamental principles, court teachings, women's education, coming of age ceremonies (male and female), ancestral hall gatherings, family harmony, rural drinking rituals, resolving disputes, and enlightening the people.
- Honoring Virtue: Respecting virtue and talent, establishing memorials for loyal and righteous individuals, inscribing names for public recognition, and honoring public virtue.
- Welfare: Granting canes to the elderly, providing chariots and honor for scholars, caring for the poor and elderly, nurturing orphans, encouraging donations, supporting the military, and assisting families of martyrs.
- Punishing Evil: Awarding plaques for good deeds, establishing printing workshops, exposing heresy and distinguishing between right and wrong, demolishing lewd shrines.
- Rural Governance: Establishing "Jia Shi" (commemorative stones), "Huan Tu" (enclosed grounds for punishment), combining punishment and education, setting an example to deter others, reviewing prisoners, visiting prisons, alleviating disasters, and granting amnesty.
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