Chapter 50 Section 12 Zhang's mother's tutoring

Yao Shi, the wife of Zhang Ying, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, was a good wife and mother who practiced herself and paid attention to precepts and deeds. She was specially praised by Emperor Kangxi. Yao Shi, a native of Tongcheng, Anhui, was born in a family of poor scholars who are well-educated and well-educated.She was a very virtuous and talented woman who studied well since she was a child.At that time, there was an endless stream of rich and powerful families proposing marriage, but Yao was not greedy for wealth or enjoyment, so he chose Zhang Ying, a poor scholar with a family and a family.Yao's parents respect her daughter's choice and support her to create a happy family with her integrity and hard work.

Yao brought infinite happiness and motivation to learn to Zhang Ying.During the day, she worked hard, took care of the housework, and weaved hard so that Zhang Ying could concentrate on studying hard. At night, she and her husband lectured on poetry, classics and books, and exchanged knowledge and knowledge.With the help of his virtuous wife, Zhang Ying's knowledge continued to improve, and later he was admitted to Jinshi and became an Imperial Academy admired by scholars all over the world. Zhang Ying worked in the Hanlin Academy, and his salary was not much. In addition, his family was poor, and he added a few small mouths to eat one after another, and his life was tight.Apart from working hard, Zhang Ying has nothing to do with his family's livelihood, and his wife never blames him.She is used to poverty, and is very good at getting through it in a frugal way.When the family couldn't solve the problem, she pawned clothes or owed rice money on credit to meet urgent needs.Despite this, she has repeatedly warned her children and comforted her husband to be content with the status quo and never have any unreasonable thoughts.

Once, a friend knew that Zhang Ying's family was in a difficult situation, so he generously gave a thousand pieces of gold as a gift, but Zhang Yingjian refused to accept it.After returning home, Zhang Ying talked about the matter with his wife. The wife supported her husband's approach and said: "The poor family may give ten pieces of gold and hardware, and the servants are happy to tell each other. Today, people have a thousand pieces of gold for no reason. People have to ask where the money comes from." Come on, can you not feel ashamed? One should not be afraid of being poor, but only of being poor.” The husband was enthusiastic about what he said, and the children beside him were also deeply educated.Later, Zhang Ying's official position became bigger and bigger, his salary also increased day by day, and his family situation improved greatly.Even so, the wife is still the same as before, more frugal and industrious, and more strict with her children.One day, a relative and friend sent a maid to Zhang Ying's house to look for Yao's business.After arriving at Zhang's house, she saw a woman mending old clothes and thought she was a servant of Zhang's family, so she asked, "Where is Madam?" The woman stood up calmly and replied, "I am." The maid saw that she was famous The lady of the bachelor's degree couldn't help but turn pale with horror, deeply ashamed and admired.Zhang Ying also maintained a clean and diligent conduct from beginning to end. At the age of 60, he still asked his wife to sew cotton clothes for him to keep out the cold.The family tradition of being diligent and thrifty in running the house not only brought Zhang Ying a lifetime of fame, but also influenced and educated the children of the Zhang family.

Zhang Ying was an official in the court, and he was busy with government affairs, and almost all the housework and children's education were left to his wife.As a mother of four sons and one daughter, Yao is obliged to take on the responsibility of educating her children.During the day, she works hard while urging and tutoring her children's studies.For a long time, this virtuous mother devoted herself to the education of her children, so that her four sons, Zhang Tingzan, Zhang Tingyu, Zhang Tinglu, and Zhang Tingyu, were all admitted to Jinshi successively. World.Among the four sons, Zhang Tingyu was particularly outstanding. Following in his father's footsteps, he was elected to the Imperial Academy after he was promoted to Jinshi, and was assigned to the South Study Room, where he lectured on Confucian classics and history for Emperor Kangxi.Emperor Kangxi once said to the left and right ministers: "Brother Zhang Tingyu, the mother taught well, not only the father taught."

The growth of children is inseparable from the education of their parents.A good family tradition requires parents to set an example and form it through precepts and deeds.As Zhang Ying's virtuous wife, Yao is able to manage the family diligently and thriftly, she supports her husband in refusing to accept gifts, and keeps clean and honest; Then make all the children become talents.It can be seen that the prosperity of a family is closely related to the housewife.