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Library of Chinese Classics: Admonitions for The Yan Clan

Written by Yan Zhitui (the Southern and Northern Dynasties)
Translated into English by Zong Fuchang
Published by Foreign Languages Press
Publication Date: 2004-01
Language: Chinese-English
Size: 16mo
Edition: Hardcover
ISBN: 7119033247 buy

Admonitions for the Yan Clan is a compilation of the Northern Wei 北魏 official and scholar Yan Zhitui 顏之推 (born 531 AD) and deals with the discipline of one's own mind, the state and the family. The book has never been out of favor as the most influential and comprehensive book on family education in China. The author applies the Confucian theory of cultivating one's moral character to the development of family harmony and education. It admonishes offspring to study hard and become useful people when they grow up, and emphasizes applying what one has learned and serving one's country. Apart from its didactic value, the book, totaling 20 chapters, sheds much light on history and social life in the period in which it was written. Containing cogent arguments, unique viewpoints and wide-ranging theories, it was a profound and systematical exposition on the special functions, principles, methods and contents of family education, being acclaimed as the pioneer in family education.

Yan Zhitui (Yen Chih-t'ui) 531-c.590

Prose writer of the Northern Qi dynasty. Descended from a family of high status from Shandong province, Yan served at the Liang court. His writings include historical and lexicographical works as well as poetry, especially the autobiographical "Guan wo sheng fu" [Prose-poem viewing my life]. He is best known for the Yanshi jiaxun [Yan's family instructions] which deals not only with human relations and self-cultivation but also with literature, the arts, and problems of life and death.

大中华文库：颜氏家训

大中华文库：颜氏家训（汉英对照 精装）
作者：（南北朝）颜之推 （著）  宗福常 （英译）
出 版 社：外文出版社
出版日期：2004-1-1
ISBN：7119033247

内容提要

中国历来重视家庭教育，地北朝时代（公元420年—589年）颜之推所著《颜氏家训》，就是中国最著名的最有影响的一部“家训”，也是一部著名的典籍。该书是儒家思想在家庭教育中的实际应用，是以儒家思想全面阐发修身冶家这道的开发之作。书中告诫子孙要见贤思齐、苦学成才，强调学以致用，报效国家，传业扬名，全书七卷十十篇，内容广博，除谆谆家训外，还我我侧面地反映了当时的历史和社会生活情况。该书论平实，见解独到，思想通博，不落时俗，成书一千多年来，备受推崇，影响深远，被誉为“家训之祖”。

　颜之推（531－约591年），宇介，祖籍琅琊临沂（今山东临沂北），先世随东晋南渡，寓居建康（今江苏南京）。初为梁湘东王国左常侍。梁朝末年侯景之乱时被囚送建邺，又当过梁元帝萧绎的散骑侍郎。承圣三年（554），北周破江陵，颜之推全家被虏，后携家逃奔北齐。因南朝陈朝替代梁朝，遂滞居北齐，官至黄门侍郎。隋开皇年间，被太子召为学士，终职。颜之推一生历梁、周、齐、隋四朝，三为亡国之人，“备茶苦而寥辛，乌焚林而铩翮，鱼夺水而暴鳞，嗟宇宙之辽旷，愧无所而容身”（《观我生赋》），这使得他在保持少欲知足、谦虚自损处世观的同时，主张士大夫应经世致用。

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