The 36 character official motto of the Yan family, the full text and translation of the Gan Family

Full text: The things of the gods cannot be completely false; But life is in the sky, or it is difficult to be worth the clock. Life in the world, touching the road is involved; On the day of the young, there is the diligence of making offerings; In the year of establishment, it increased the burden of wives and children.

food and clothing, public and private servitude; And looking at the mountains and forests, transcendent dust, never meet one. Add the cost of gold and jade, and the stove is needed, and it is not for the poor. Learning is like a cow's hair, and becoming like a horn.

Under Huashan, the white bones are as reckless, how can there be any reason? Examination of the internal teaching, even if the immortals, should eventually die, can not be born, do not want Ru Cao to specialize in this. If they love to nourish the gods, regulate their breath, and lie down cautiously, they are all suitable for greetings, taboo food and drink, and bait drugs, so that they will not die young, and I will be inseparable."

The bait method of medicine does not waste the world's affairs. Geng shoulders I often serve Huaishi, more than 70 years old, look at the fine words, and the hair is still black. Yezhong courtiers, there are many people who benefit from taking almonds, wolfberries, yellow essence, atractylodes, and psyllium, and they can't say it.

I tasted the tooth, I shook and wanted to fall, and I ate hot and cold, and I was bitter and painful. See the method of "Hug Puzi" to fix the teeth, and it is good to knock the teeth 300 times in the early dynasty.

After a few days, even if it is peaceful, it will continue to be held on today. This generation's small skills are not harmful to things, and they can also be cultivated. If you want to bait medicine, Tao hermits in "Taiqing Fang" is very well recorded, but it must be carefully reviewed and cannot be taken off lightly. Recently, Wang Aizhou was in Ye Xuexue to take pine resin and did not save the degree, and died of intestinal congestion, and there were many people who were mistaken by medicine.

Vernacular translation: It cannot be said that the things that become immortals are all false, but the length of a person's life depends on the heavens, and it is difficult to say whether he will meet good luck or bad luck. In the life of a person, there are worries and fetters everywhere; When I was young, I had to do the hard work of serving my parents, and when I became an adult, I increased the burden of raising my wife and children.

The supply and demand for food and clothing, working hard for official and private affairs, and hoping to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, beyond the world, do not meet one in ten million. In addition, the art of becoming an immortal costs ** Baoyu, and furnace utensils are needed, which is not something that a poor person can do. There are as many people who learn the Tao as cattle hair, and those who succeed are as few as phosphorus horns.

Under Mount Hua, there are many white bones like weeds, **There is a reason to get your wish? If you carefully examine the internal religion, even if you can become an immortal, you still have to die in the end, and you can't get rid of the fetters of the world and live forever. I don't want you to devote yourself to this.

If you cherish and maintain your spirit, regulate and nourish your breath, have a regular daily life, dress appropriately, eat modestly, eat some tonic medicine to nourish you, follow your original talent, and keep your vitality without dying, then I will have nothing to criticize.

Take tonic medicine to get the Fa, don't delay the big thing. Yu Shouwu often takes the fruit of the locust tree, and when he is in his seventies, his eyes can still see small print, and his beard and hair are still very dark. There are people in the court of Yecheng who specialize in taking almonds, wolf, yellow essence, atractylodes, and psyllium, and get a lot of benefits from them.

If you want to take tonics, Tao Seclusion's "Taiqing Fang" is very complete, but it must be carefully selected and not rash. Recently, there was a man named Wang Aizhou, who imitated others in Yecheng to take pine resin, and without moderation, his intestines were blocked and he died. There are many people who have been harmed by drugs.

Source: From Yan Zhitui's "Yan's Family Motto" during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

The Gan family motto governs the family.

Confucius said, "If you are extravagant, you will not be obedient, and if you are thrifty, you will be stubborn." Rather than be disrespectful, it is better to be stubborn.

He also said: "If there is such beauty as Zhou Gong, but if he is both proud and stingy, the rest is not worthy of praise." In this way, it is possible to be frugal and not stingy.

Thrift means saving in accordance with courtesy; Being stingy means that he is not considerate of difficulties and crises. Nowadays, it is often said that charity becomes luxury, and frugality enters miserliness. It would be nice if you could be charitable without extravagance, frugal without being stingy.

The foundation of the people's life is to sow crops to eat, and plant mulberry hemp to dress. The stored vegetables and fruits are produced in the orchard garden; The chickens and pigs eaten are raised by the chicken coop and pigsty. And the utensils of the side room, the firewood, the grass, the candles, there is nothing that is not made by planting.

The kind of person who can keep the family business, can close the door and have enough necessities, but there is no salt well at home. Nowadays, the customs of the north can be thrifty and thrifty to provide food and clothing. The places in the south of the Yangtze River are luxurious, and most of them are not as good as those in the north.

The famous people of the world, who only seek generosity and benevolence, but get the food and drink that are given by the guests, are reduced by the servants, and the things that are promised to be subsidized are withheld by their wives and children, and they insult the guests and mean their neighbors, which is also a great scourge of governing the family.

As long as Pei Ziye has relatives and former relatives who are hungry and cold and can't save themselves, they will all be adopted. The family has always been poor, and sometimes in the event of floods and droughts, they cook gruel with two stone rice, barely let everyone eat, and eat it with everyone themselves, and never get tired of it. There was a general under Ye, and his greed had accumulated so much that he had 800 servants, and he swore that he would make up 1,000 people, and that the meal for each person in the morning and evening would be 15 cents, and that he would not increase any more when guests came.

There is a person in Nanyang who is deeply hidden and stingy. After the winter solstice, his son-in-law came to see him, he only prepared a copper ou of wine, and a few pieces of roe deer meat, the son-in-law thought it was too simple, and ate and drank it all at once. The man was so surprised that he had to reluctantly cope with the addition of a little, and after adding it twice, he turned back and blamed his daughter

A certain man loves to drink too much, which makes you always poor. When he died, his sons fought over the inheritance, and the brother killed his brother.