Admonitions for Cultivating Patience

Author: Xu Mingkui (Yuan Dynasty)
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Publishing Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The traditional culture of the Chinese nation has a long history, and historical records are vast as the ocean. As the long river of history rolls forward, the great waves wash away the sand, leaving behind preserved documents like scattered gold and silver, which are particularly precious. The moral teachings and admonitions passed down in Chinese society (private, family) directly reflect the ethical 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. They also cover topics such as governing, ruling the state, academic pursuits, 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 a stance of promoting the positive while discarding the negative, having done the work of organizing and filtering them. At the same time, we hope readers will exercise correct judgment and understanding.