Yan Zhitui was originally from Linyi (now Linyi) and lived in Jiankang (now Nanjing). Born in an aristocratic bureaucratic family, Zhou Guan and Zuo Chunqiu were handed down from generation to generation. He inherited his family business early, and he listened to the knowledge of Laozi and Zhuangzi when he was 65,438+02 years old. Because "empty talk is not his cup of tea", he has also studied "Li" and "Biography", and his life is "good drinking, not sloppy. "He is well-read, and his words are full of emotion, which won the appreciation of King Xiang-dong Liang. /kloc-at the age of 0/9, he was appointed as a constant servant of the country. After that, he went to Beiqi, and after 20 years, he became an assistant minister of Huangmen. In 577 AD, the Northern Qi Dynasty was destroyed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he was recruited as an imperial staff sergeant. In 58 1 year, in the northern Zhou Dynasty of Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty was called a bachelor and died soon. According to his self-report, "Give life to three, and prepare for suffering." Sigh "the third is the extinct person." Works handed down from ancient times include Family Instructions of Yan Family, Hatred, Ji, etc. Twenty Family Instructions of Yan Family is a systematic and complete family education textbook compiled by Yan Zhitui in order to teach future generations with Confucianism and maintain the tradition and status of his family. This is a summary of his life's experience of being a scholar-bureaucrat, managing a family, doing things and studying, which has an important influence on the development history of feudal family education. Later generations called this book "the norm of family education".

Originally from Zou Lu, he was born after Yan Sheng in Shanhaiguan in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Datong was born in Jiangling (Jiangling, Hubei) in the third year of 1911 (53 1), and has two brothers, Yan Zhiyi and Yan. When I was seven years old, I could recite "Luling Photoelectricity Fu". In the eighth year of Datong (542), he was in Jiangzhou (Jiangzhou ruled Xunyang, now Jiujiang, Jiangxi) with Wang Xiaoyi of Xiangdong. /kloc-at the age of 0/9 (547), he was a constant attendant of Xiao Yiyou, the king of eastern Hunan, and later entered Cao and was stationed in Jiangling. In 550, he joined the army for Xiao Fang. In the second year of Taiqing (548), Hou Jing rebellion broke out and Yan Zhitui was captured. Because the doctor Wang was saved by Hou Jing and was not killed, the prisoner was sent to Jiankang. In 552, Hou Jing was defeated and returned to Jiangling. Xiao Yi stood on his own feet in Jiangling, and inherited from Wang Shen in the year of Sheng Yuan (552). He was ordered to collate books as an assistant riding a horse. In 554, the Western Wei captured Jiangling, was captured again and moved to Chang 'an. After fleeing to Beiqi, on the day of escape, "the value of the river soared, and the ship ran to its wife, which was in danger." . During the Northern Qi Dynasty, Xuan Di was an official in Tianbao for seven years (556). In 557, the soldiers in the Northern Zhou Dynasty were trapped in Jinyang, and were cited as the plain satrap and the Hejin garrison commander. At the end of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (579-580), he was like a court staff sergeant. When the Emperor ascended the throne in Sui Dynasty, Prince Yong Yang called him a bachelor, which was very respectful. Find the end of the disease. . He died in the 11th year of Qidi (59 1).

Combined with my family education and personal experience from primary school, I wrote a book Yan Jiaxun (420-58 1 year), advocating early education. He believes that people are single-minded when they are young; When you grow up, your thoughts are scattered and it is not easy to learn. Yuan Zhong said: "The family law of Yan Zhitui in the Six Dynasties was the most correct and the farthest." Zhou Zuoren highly praised Yan Zhitui's and Yan's family instructions, and wrote an article "Comments on Yan's Family Instructions after Reading" in "Reading at Night". There are two volumes of Yan Jiaxun in the miscellaneous category of the General Catalogue of the Four Books.

There are three sons: the eldest son Yan, the second son Yan Yuchu and the third son Yan Youqin.