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Yanshi jiaxun 顏氏家訓 "The Family Instructions of Master Yan" by Yan Zhitui 顏之推 | Literature by A to Z Literature by time Literature by theme | ||
The book Yan Shi Jiaxun (Yanshi Jiaxun) 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. He thus follows the guideline of the Confucian Classic Daxue 大學 "The Great Learning", a small book that recommends self-cultivation as the base for the welfare of the whole nation. After centuries of Buddhist prevalence, Yan Zhitui was a vehement fighter for Confucian renaissance in the Northern Wei empire of the Yuan clan 元, a family that traces her own origins to the Tuoba people 拓跋, a non-Chinese nation. Adopting Confucianism as state doctrine gave the foreign Tuoba rulers the same legitimation like the Chinese rulers before them. Yan Zhitui is also one of the few poets of the Northern Dynasties. The chapters of the Yan Shi Jiaxun are:
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