Yan Zhitui was appointed as the right assistant and plain satrap of Xiangdong. He lived in an era of separation and integration in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, constant wars, depressed people's livelihood, social unrest and people's exile. When he was nine years old, his father Xie Yan died. Since then, his family has declined and his people have been left out in the cold. He was brought up by two older brothers. In AD 19 (549), Yan Zhitui was appointed as the right assistant minister of Xiangdong Kingdom, and Cao Seymour joined the army and started his career.
Yan Zhitui was 2 1 year-old (55 1 year-old) and was in charge of Xiakou (now Wuhan, Hubei) of Yunzhou Institute of Governance. Hou Jing rebels occupied Yunzhou, and Yan Zhitui was captured. For example, he was killed, rescued by others and sent to Jiankang (now Nanjing). In the second year, Liang Jun recovered Jiankang, and the scenery was defeated. Yan Zhitui returned to Jiangling, where he served as a rider of Xiao Yi, Emperor of Liang Yuan, played personnel and was ordered to proofread books. Read all the books in the secret cabinet in two years.
In 544, Emperor Liang Yuan was consecrated for three years. Jiangling was captured by the Western Wei Dynasty, and Yan Zhitui's family was exiled. Because Li Mu, the general of the Western Wei Dynasty, valued him, he was recommended to be in charge of his younger brother, Yang Liyuan, and was sent to Hongnong County (now north of Lingbao City, Henan Province) the following year. Yan Zhitui did not forget Hongnong's old country, and he returned to the south. When he learned that Beiqi sent envoys back to China, all Liang Chen who stayed at home were sent off as courtesy, and he was determined to flee to Beiqi.
In the seventh year (556) of natural forest protection in Wen Xuandi, Northern Qi Dynasty, he took advantage of the skyrocketing Yellow River and ventured to flee to Northern Qi by boat from Hongnong Night, where he was forced to be an official. Yan Zhitui lived a relatively stable life in Beiqi for 20 years. He has worked as a military officer in Zhaozhou, a regular waiter riding a straight road, a calligrapher and an assistant in Huangmen. He presided over the work of the Lin Wen Pavilion and wrote "Xiuwen Temple Royal Scenery". Although he was promoted repeatedly in his official career, he died in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. After the Sui Dynasty, Yan Zhitui worked for the Sui Dynasty again. Later, Yong Yang, Prince of Sui Dynasty, called him a bachelor, and he was highly respected. Yan Jiaxun was written in this period.
In the 10th year (590), Yan Zhitui died in the 10th year of Jingzhao (Jin 'an). At the age of 59. There are three sons: Lu Si, Chu and Qin.
Yan Zhitui wrote twenty Yan's family instructions, which were rich in content and full of medicine stones and eloquent lessons. In addition to teaching future generations the methods of protecting family and body, the way of dealing with people and things, and the strategy of governing the country, it also involves Confucianism, Buddhism, history, literature, metaphysics, Taoism, philology, phonology, divination, arithmetic calendar, chess and calligraphy. It is of great value to study the educational history, language and literature of the Southern and Northern Dynasties today.
Yan Family Instructions has the following obvious characteristics:
1. has a wide range of contents; 2. Strong academic; Third, there are many cases and strong credibility; Fourth, the comparison between North and South customs requires children to be studious, virtuous, filial and indifferent. It is a systematic Analects of Yan's Family Style.
The main content of Yan Zhitui's Family Instructions for Yan Family is "filial piety", and the code of conduct stipulated for future generations is the golden mean. Yan Zhitui believes that the family is the epitome of society, and the relationship between father and son is the epitome of the relationship between monarch and minister. If a son is not filial to his father, he is in danger of betraying the king. If people want to reach the ethical realm of monarch, monarch, minister, father, son and son, they must start with family education.
Yan Zhitui believes that only by filial piety can future generations be loyal to the monarch. If the country is in trouble, they will resolutely die.
According to China's traditional principles, filial piety is the most basic starting point of life and an important part of family and social ethics in China. Family Instructions of Yan highlighted the content of filial piety, so in the history of China, many families chose Family Instructions of Yan as a necessary teaching material for family education, so Family Instructions of Yan made a certain contribution to the promotion and development of family culture in China.