The moral education content of family instruction in Song Dynasty inherited the family education concept of "moral education first". Influenced by the Confucian thoughts of "ruling the country by virtue" and "taking virtue as the foundation", although many new contents and ideas have been added to the family instructions in the Song Dynasty, moral education has always been the main color. The detailed and comprehensive moral norms were put forward in the family instructions of the Song Dynasty, which contained rich methods and principles of moral cultivation. Some family instruction producers directly understand the significance of morality to life and the importance of moral education in literature.
Second, the moral cultivation method of family precepts in Song Dynasty runs through the whole thought.
First of all, the family instructions in Song Dynasty pay attention to the unity of moral cognition, moral emotion and moral practice. In family moral education, Song people not only paid attention to moral persuasion and education, but also taught their children the truth of being a man and the experience of dealing with others. They also pay attention to the application of family affection law in moral education, which includes emotion in reason and strict teaching and responsibility. The combination of moral cognition and moral emotion adds "human touch", which embodies the "humanistic care" of moral education in family training in Song Dynasty and improves the implementation effect of pure rational moral preaching.