At the beginning of the article, it is said that "a gentleman's trip is to cultivate one's morality by quietness and frugality." Make the opening remarks clear. To achieve the moral character of a gentleman, we must be quiet and single-minded, eliminate distractions and interference, and live a simple life. Ideologically, from the dribs and drabs of daily life, over time, over the years, you can become a gentleman's virtue. "Not indifferent, not quiet, not far away." Only when you calm down and don't want fame and fortune can you set up lofty ideals. Only when you calm down and concentrate on it can you realize lofty ideals. It is necessary to be quiet when setting up ideals, and quiet when realizing them. The importance of silence is highlighted. "If a husband wants to learn, he must first calm down and learn." Learning must be quiet, and growth ability must be studied. "No learning, no learning, no learning, no learning, no learning." Explain the relationship between learning and talent, ambition and learning. The relationship between determination, success and learning is an organic whole. "If you are slow, you can't be energetic. If you are dangerous, you can't be radical." Discuss the importance of silence from the opposite side. "Time goes by, meaning goes by, and it becomes withered." If you don't accept the world, you will remain poor. What will happen? "You don't work hard, the boss will be sad!
The ancients paid attention to self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world, and attached great importance to the education of the younger generation. As the saying goes, "a father wants his son to be good, but he can't kill himself. The rest have no compassion!" "
The writing of the book of commandments requires truth and simplicity.
Zhuge Liang not only wrote the commandment book, but also wrote the exogenous commandment book. "Aim high, admire sages, abandon lust and stagnation. Set a few goals, reveal, feel sad, endure flexion and extension, subdivide and ask questions widely. Although you are stingy, although you have stayed for a long time, why bother to harm your pleasure? Why bother to suffer it? " If your will is not strong and your intentions are not generous, you will be mediocre, stuck in vulgarity, silently bound in feelings, forever dormant in the secular, and bound to vulgarity! "
Traditional literati in China have always attached importance to self-cultivation. There is a saying in the Confucian classic "University" that "those who want to govern their country must get their home first; If you want to reunite with your family, you should first repair your body; If you want to cultivate yourself, you should be upright first; If you want to be straight, you must be sincere first. " Self-cultivation is the basis and premise of keeping the family in order, keeping the family in order is the basis and premise of governing the country, and governing the country is the premise of leveling the world. China believed in the dogma that poverty is the only way to protect himself and prosperity is the only way to help the world.
Zhuge Liang's commandments are still respected by thousands of families. Good family style is the foundation of social harmony and the symbol of civilization and progress. Family style is connected with folk customs, and folk customs are related to culture! The essence of reading the book of commandments is to form a good family style and good folk customs!