Wen Gong Jia Fankao, a masterpiece handed down from ancient times, was written by Sima Guang (1019-1086), a famous historian in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was an important teaching material for family moral education in feudal society. The thought of family ethics in Wen Gong Jia Fan is a masterpiece of Confucian classics, which puts family ethics in a very prominent position in family education.

Sima Guang tried his best to maintain the most traditional Confucian family ethics, corrected the patriarchal power unilaterally and absolutely created by Han Fei during the Warring States Period, emphasized the combination of rights and obligations to deal with family ethics issues, advocated the father's love for mother's love, denounced unkind parents and opposed filial piety, and clearly put forward that "being unkind and unfilial is also a crime." A large number of historical materials are listed to illustrate the integrated relationship between benevolence and filial piety.

Wen Gong Jia Fan puts forward specific requirements for the ethical norms that parents, children, brothers and couples should abide by, mainly from four aspects: the kindness and filial piety of fathers, the love and respect of brothers to brothers, the softness and kindness of couples and the listening of women. His family ethics thought has played a very important role in carrying forward traditional morality.

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Wen Gong Jia Fankao, a masterpiece handed down from ancient times, was written by Sima Guang (1019-1086), a famous historian in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was an important teaching material for family moral education in feudal society.

Sima Guang, whose real name is Jun Shi, was born in Xia County, Shaanxi Province (now Xia County, Shanxi Province). Because he lives in Sushui Village, the world calls him Mr. Sushui. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty (1038), Renzong Baoyuan was a scholar in the Imperial Academy. Zhezong was the prime minister, and after his death, he was posthumously named as a Taishi, Wen Guogong and Shi. He is honest, thrifty, knowledgeable and rich in writing.