There is an old saying: "Moral heirlooms, more than ten generations, cultivation and reading heirlooms are secondary, poetry and books are passed down from family to family, rich and noble heirlooms, but three generations." Posterity often shrinks this passage into 5 words, that is, "rich but not three generations", throughout China's history, can break this "curse" of the family (enterprise) is not much, according to the 2014 family business wealth data, the average life expectancy of China's family business is only 24 years, can successfully enter the 4th generation of only 4%.
But less, does not mean that there is not, today Xiaobian to introduce to you the family, stretching for more than 2,000 years of long-term prosperity, out of more than 600 celebrities, even the royal family is not as good as their family, who are they? And how?
The Pei family, known as the most famous and long-standing family in China's feudal history, since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the sixth Sun Ling was enfeoffed as Xie Yijun, and from then on went to "Yi" from "Yi" and "Pei" as the surname. Since then, the Pei family can be said to be full of talents and extremely brilliant, so how brilliant is it? We go straight to the data.
According to the statistics of the "Pei Family Genealogy", the Pei family has produced 59 prime ministers, 59 great generals, 14 Zhongshu Shilang, 55 Shangshu, 44 Shilang, 11 Chang Shi, 10 Imperial History, 3 Empresses, 4 PrincessEs, 2 Princesses, 21 Horses, and 20 Princesses. In addition, 164 people were knighted. It can really be said that "the martial arts will be connected to each other, and the prince will be a door", which will amaze the world!
And these are only the leaders of the Pei family in the official field, in other academic fields, the Pei family is also full of talents, such as pei xiu, a western Jin dynasty cartographer who pioneered the principle of "cartography and six bodies", who laid a scientific foundation for the preparation of maps in China, and his masterpiece "Yugong Geographical Map" 18 articles is the first monograph on map theory in China.
Another example is the "Three Peis of Historiography" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period - "Pei Songzhi, Pei Xiao, pei Ziye", they respectively annotated the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "History", and "Song Luo", all of which are informative and historical materials, circulated through the ages, and the first of the annotated history. Even Emperor Wen of Song, Liu Yilong, couldn't help but praise: "Pei Shi period is immortal!" ”
So why can the Pei family "mass-produce talents" and continue to flourish for more than 2,000 years?
In fact, as early as 300 years ago, the famous thinker Gu Yanwu was already exploring the reasons for the prosperity of the Pei family, and he finally summarized 3 points, namely "marriage, hereditary and self-improvement", and we will analyze them in detail from these 3 points below.
The first is marriage and hereditary, as mentioned above, the Pei family has produced 3 empresses, 4 princesses, and 2 princesses, which shows that the Pei family has formed a relationship with the royal family through marriage; at the same time, the Pei family has 164 knights, which are conducive to promoting the pei family's descendants to emerge in politics and lay the foundation for continuing to maintain family influence in the future.
The second is self-improvement, self-improvement here, can be said from the Pei family's family style, family rules, ancestral training, they have attached importance to education for generations, in the Pei family, they stipulate that "children and grandchildren can not pass the examination to show talent, are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall gate", this provision is quite "tiger father and bear mother" taste, but at the same time can be seen that the Pei family attaches great importance to education, in this high-pressure environment, the Pei family is difficult to produce talents.
To this day, Pei Bai Village, where the Pei family is located, has maintained a tradition of attaching importance to education, and every household has a large character written on the upper floor of the door to warn future generations. It is this insistence on education that has made the Pei family prosperous for 2,000 years, which has important reference significance.
Reference: The Pei Family of the Millennium Glory