CCTV News: You can start the exam again, but good deeds will never be absent. From ancient times to the present, Chinese virtues have never faded. May 15th is International Family Day. Since ancient times, we have attached great importance to family precepts, family style and family education, cultivate our own virtues, and cultivate our family through farming and reading. The family mottoes and family styles of each family have also shaped the unique cultural character of the Chinese nation.

On the Cultural China Tour on May 15, let’s listen to family traditions and precepts from ancient times to the present, and feel the Chinese nation’s cherishment and inheritance of excellent and beautiful virtues.

The Family Style and Family Style and Family Style and Family Style and Family Style and Family Style and Family Style and Family Style of more than 50 celebrities are included in the Family Style and Family Style and Family Style of more than 50 celebrities. This piece of tofu carved from jade is particularly eye-catching. This is a tradition set by Lin Zexu, a famous minister of the generation, for future generations. Every year on New Year's Eve, you must eat vegetarian fried tofu.

"The sea embraces all rivers, and tolerance is great; the wall stands thousands of feet high, and there is no desire to be strong" is a self-encourage couplet written by Lin Zexu when he was appointed as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and it is also the family motto of Lin Zexu's descendants.

"A father and son three poets" In the Sansu Temple in Meishan City, Sichuan Province, Su Xun, Su Shi and Su Zhe have created eternal stories in the history of Chinese literature, and their family motto also contains the cultural code of prosperity of family. Meishan Sansu "reads the right work, is filial, kind and kind, does not take justice, and is honest in government." Taking Confucian culture as the root, "cultivating one's own behaviors and morals" - paying attention to one's own behaviors and morals; "managing the family" - advocating the father's kindness, filial piety, friendship, and respect for brothers; "benefiting the clan" - advocating the duties that individuals should do in the family. In addition to relatives, the goal is to rule the country, which is the "cultivation of oneself, management of the family, govern the country, and pacify the world" advocated by Confucian culture.

According to research, ancient Chinese family mottoes originated from the pre-Qin period, matured from the Jin Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, flourished from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and have a history of thousands of years. From "Zeng Zi killed a pig" to "believe in words", to "Mencius' mother moved three times" to confirm that "learning has a place to live"; from "Indifferent and clear ambitions, quiet and far-reaching ambitions" in "The Book of Instructions on Son", to "Teaching Frugality and Showing Health" in "It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality"; from "Three reflections on my body" advocated by Confucius to "Zeng Guofan's "virtuous virtue" in teaching future generations. There are more than 120 "family teachings" published in ancient China recorded in "Comprehensive Records of China Books" and have been immersed in and passed on for thousands of years, which have also shaped the Chinese people's unique feelings for family and country and the cultural character of the Chinese nation.

The "Huizhou Millennium Clan Archives" selected in the "Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Region" in 2024, spanning the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, and Republic of China periods. 427 and 2,235 archival materials record the historical process of Huizhou's surnames and clans' exchanges and integration with all over the world for thousands of years. Among them, the Wang family genealogy and the Wang family in the Qing Dynasty have ten instructions, and advocate family traditions such as "filial piety to parents and friendship with brothers", cultivate morality, inspire future generations, and allow the clan lineage to prosper. Recording and inheritance have become important historical materials with multiple values ​​such as historical value and folk research.

Researcher at the Institute of National Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Mao Qiaohui: In the Chinese concept, the family isomorphic. The family is the smallest and most basic unit of the country, and the country is the magnified home. Our family tradition and family motto have always been to put the national justice first. Family style and family precepts are closely linked to the excellent traditional Chinese virtues.