论《莫太夫人家训》的儒学特色与传播

On the Confucian Features and Transmission of The Family Instructions of Lady Mo

《莫太夫人家训》作于南宋绍兴二十九年(1159年),作者是浙江余姚柏山胡氏家族的女性尊长莫太夫人。她治家有法,辅助夫君的事业,成就他的名节大义;课子有成,养育了一代台谏名臣。残生余年之际,更是手订万言家训,垂训子孙,产生了深远影响。《莫太夫人家训》以现实关怀为底色,力图用儒家礼法教化子弟,规范家族伦理秩序,以为世风薰化之补;娓娓道来、循循善诱,一百二十款,款款有至情。胡氏子孙视为拱璧,八百多年中,不断梓刻。先人遗泽,百世流播,宜扬弃其不适合现代社会的内容,汲取其精华,以资家庭教育与社会治理之助。

The Family Instructions of Lady Mo was written in the thirtieth year of Shaoxing of the Southern Song Dynasty.The author of the book is the respected female elder Lady Mo of the famous Hu Family in Baishan Town of Yuyao County,Zhejiang Province.Lady Mo was a resourceful woman in managing the family affairs,helping her husband fulfill great achievements and cultivating her children and grandchildren who later became renowned minister or high officials of the country.The family instructions were written by the Lady when she was 85 with the intention to guide the later generations of the family with Confucius teachings to regulate the family ethical order,supplementing the social morality of the time and exerting profound influence later.Totaling 120 parts,the instructions were written with great emotion in a straightforward and natural manner and has been passed down on her later generations and looked up as the spiritual anchor by them in the past 800 years.As the instructions are part of our national heritage,the author believes the essence of them should be kept and those that do not fit the modern society should be discarded to help our family education and social management at present.