【Zhixing topic】Pay attention to the construction of family education and family style

At the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to pay attention to family education and family style, and urge leading cadres to strictly manage their relatives and children. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the construction of family education and family style, emphasizing that "no matter how much the times have changed, no matter how much the pattern of life has changed, we must attach importance to family construction, pay attention to family, pay attention to family education, and pay attention to family style". In this issue, experts and scholars are invited to talk about their learning experience from the aspects of fundamental compliance, family culture, and system requirements.

[Fundamental follow] to cultivate the good family style of the communists in the new era

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has attached great importance to the issue of the family style of leading cadres, and has raised the construction of the family style of leading cadres to an unprecedented height, as an important part of the construction of work style, and has achieved remarkable results.

The family style of leading cadres is an important manifestation of the work style of leading cadres. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has included the construction of family style among leading cadres in the scope of work style construction and institutionalized it in the form of internal Party regulations. At the same time, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a series of important expositions on focusing on family, family education, and family style construction, raising the understanding of the regularity of leading cadres' family style construction to a new height. For example, the general secretary has repeatedly put forward clear requirements for the construction of family style among party members and leading cadres at the plenary sessions of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. At the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18 th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, it was demanded that family members and staff members around them must be properly managed; at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18 th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, every leading cadre was required to put the building of family style in an important position; and at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19 th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, it was emphasized that leading cadres at all levels should take the lead in administering their families honestly. Recently, at the Third Plenary Session of the 20 th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, it was stressed that it is necessary to pay attention to family education and family style, and urged leading cadres to strictly manage their relatives and children.

The family style of leading cadres has a bearing on the party's style, government style, social style, and people's style. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has focused on promoting the people's customs and social customs with excellent party style, giving play to the role of outstanding party members, cadres and moral models, taking the construction of family style as an important part of the construction of leading cadres' work style, promoting truth, goodness and beauty, suppressing falsehood, evil and ugliness, creating a social atmosphere of advocating virtue and goodness, and promoting a significant improvement in social atmosphere. General Secretary Xi Jinping once used the allusion of "don't use the third master, abolish your post and die at home" to tell leading cadres to "pay attention to the little things at home, prevent micro problems, and don't protect the calves", and also vividly used the words "home" and "mound" to metaphorize family construction, emphasizing that "only a little higher requirements for family members and children can become a happy home, and a lower one may bury a good family". Leading cadres should take the lead in paying attention to the family, family education, and family style, maintain the noble character and honest conduct of the communists, lead the whole society to respect virtue and goodness, respect the law and abide by the law with practical actions, and lead the good atmosphere of the whole society with a good family style.

Take the lead in establishing a good family style and set an example for the whole party. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that leading cadres, especially senior cadres, should be enlightened, abide by public morality, strict private morality, and be models of honesty and self-discipline, honest use of power, and honest family. In this regard, General Secretary Xi Jinping leads by example, and every time he goes to work, he will warn relatives and friends, "You can't engage in any commercial activities in the place where I work, and you can't do anything under my banner, otherwise don't blame my six relatives for not recognizing me." After assuming the post of general secretary, he sternly said, "Whoever does it for them will trap me in a place of injustice and injustice!" Not only will I not thank you, but I will certainly hold you accountable!" Leading cadres at all levels, especially senior cadres, must inherit and carry forward the fine traditional Chinese culture, inherit and carry forward the red family style of their revolutionary predecessors, incorporate loyalty to the party into the building of family education and family style, guide their relatives and children to resolutely obey the party, follow the party, set an example in the building of family style, and implement self-cultivation and family harmony. (Hu Xiaoqing, Deputy Editor of the First Research Department of the Central Academy of Party History and Literature)

【Family Culture】Family culture in the excellent traditional Chinese culture

Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has emphasized the isomorphism of the family and the country, emphasizing that the prosperity of the family is closely related to social harmony and national development. "Mencius: Lilou Shang": "The foundation of the world is in the country, the foundation of the country is at home, and the foundation of the family is in the body." The "University" also makes it clear: "Those who want to be clear and virtuous in the world in ancient times should first rule their country, those who want to rule their country must first gather their families, and those who want to gather their families must first cultivate their bodies." In the course of thousands of years of development of the Chinese nation, a fine tradition of attaching importance to family, family education, and family style has been formed.

Family culture is a culture of responsibility, which pays attention to the order of virtue and etiquette, that is, to integrate virtue and etiquette into the family tree and family motto, family law and family rules, and with the help of the inheritance of blood, the Chinese excellent morality and legal concept have become the code of conduct to be observed by future generations. Family customs can be passed down from generation to generation, some of which are recorded in writing, such as family mottos, family rules and family models that appear in history, and some are passed on by word of mouth. In the process of inheritance, with the changes of society, its content will also change, but the basic core content will not change, mainly diligence and thrift, upward and benevolent, rule of law, benevolence and courtesy, cultivation and reading heirlooms, and honesty and honesty for officials. Historically, there have been many excellent achievements of family mottos, family rules and family models that have been handed down to this day, such as "Book of Commandments", "Yan's Family Motto", "Family Style", "Yuan's Shifan", "Zhuzi's Family Motto" and "Zeng Guofan's Family Book" and so on.

For thousands of years, the excellent Chinese family style has formed a complete set of normative systems, covering the demonstration and rules of acquiring new knowledge, self-cultivation, interpersonal communication, and official administration, etc., which is rich in content and embodies the wisdom of ancient sages in governing the family. For example, it is recommended to cultivate Qi and rule peace, and the unity of the family and the country. "Zhu Zi's Family Motto" says: "Reading is aimed at sages, not disciples; for the sake of the official and the monarchy, how can you count your wealth"; Fan Zhongyan's "the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world" and so on, are all well-known family mottos. Advocate inspirational learning, success and serve the country. The story of "Confucius passing through the court" recorded in the Analects reflects Confucius's educational philosophy for his son: "If you don't learn poetry, you can't speak." If you don't learn etiquette, you can't stand." Ji Kang said in the "Family Commandments": "If a person has no ambition, he is not a person"; and there is a special chapter on "Learning" in the "Yan's Family Motto." Advocate diligence and frugality, and avoid bad habits. Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty once wrote an article for his son Sima Kang called "Training and Thrift", educating his son to "change from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift", and emphasized that "gentlemen have few desires".

The ancients "learned and excelled", so there is a wealth of content about anti-corruption and honesty in the family culture, and there are countless famous sentences about family rules and family mottos about honesty and integrity, diligence and love for the people. It is recorded in the "Zhou Li" that there were "six integrity" standards for the assessment of officials at that time, namely, honesty and goodness, honesty and ability, honesty and respect, integrity, integrity and law, and integrity, which reflected the spirit that "integrity" is the foundation of government. Bao Zheng, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, admonished his descendants and said: "The descendants of the descendants of the eunuchs, if there are stolen goods, they shall not be released to their own families, and they shall not be buried in the big house if they die." In the "Zheng Norms" formulated by the Zheng family, the "first in the south of the Yangtze River" in the Ming Dynasty, it was emphasized that the descendants should "serve their duties diligently and not be greedy" and that "those who have learned about it with stolen ink, their names will be cut off from the "spectrum" when they are born, and they will not be allowed to enter the ancestral hall if they die"; Zeng Guofan, a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty, once built the "Eight Hontang", and there was a clause in his family motto that "the official should be based on not wanting money," requiring the children of the family to be honest and honest as officials.

In the historical process of the development of the Chinese nation, the cultural elements of the excellent Chinese family style permeate all aspects of social life and play an important and irreplaceable role in educating future generations. (Niu Guanheng, Assistant Researcher, Institute of Contemporary China Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

[System requirements] Party discipline and state law on the requirements of the family style of Party members and leading cadres

The party and the state have always attached great importance to the construction of the family style system, and have successively written good family style into the "Guidelines for Integrity and Self-discipline of the Communist Party of China", "Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China", "Civil Code of the People's Republic of China" and other party discipline and state laws.

In terms of intra-Party regulations, the Guidelines for Integrity and Self-discipline of the Communist Party of China list "integrity and self-discipline as an important integrity and self-discipline norm for Party members and leading cadres". The "Several Guidelines on the Political Life of the Party in the New Situation" requires that "leading cadres, especially senior cadres, must pay attention to family, family education, and family style." The Regulations on Intra-Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China require comrades in the Politburo to "take the lead in establishing a good family style". The Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China stipulate the punishment measures for Party members and cadres who do not attach importance to the construction of family style, resulting in the failure of their spouses, children and their spouses to be undisciplined and uneducated. The "Regulations on the Evaluation of Party and Government Leading Cadres" clearly stipulates that the content of the evaluation of leading cadres includes "establishing a good family style".

At the level of national law, the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China clearly stipulates that "families shall establish a good family style, promote family virtues, and attach importance to the construction of family civilization", which has an important declarative function and system value. The "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of Family Education" mentions good family style five times, guiding the whole society to pay attention to the construction of family education and family style. In addition, the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party's Centennial Struggle, adopted at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, pointed out that it is necessary to "pay attention to the construction of family education and family style". The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China once again emphasized the need to "strengthen the construction of family education and family style".

The family style of party members and leading cadres is not a personal matter or a private family matter, but an important manifestation of the work style of party members and leading cadres, which is related to the party style and political style. The building of the family style of leading cadres is an important part of the party's work style building and an inevitable requirement for comprehensively and strictly administering the party in the new era. Promoting the building of the family style of party-member leading cadres through party discipline and state law is not only the foundation for the building of a clean and honest party style, but also an important line of defense against corruption. A good family style can lead party members and leading cadres to be honest and self-disciplined, and take the initiative to build a "firewall" against corruption and degeneration, while a bad family style is a "catalyst" that leads them to corruption and degeneration. Party members and leading cadres must strictly abide by the provisions of party discipline and state law, put the construction of family style in an important position in the construction of party style and government style, often cultivate the virtue of government, always have the heart of self-discipline, always think about the harm of greed, and implement self-cultivation and family practice.

To comprehensively and strictly govern the party and govern the country according to law, it is urgent to grasp the "key minority" of leading cadres, promote and improve the long-term mechanism for the construction of family style, cultivate a clear party style, political style and social style with the fine family style of party members and leading cadres, and gather majestic strength for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. (Yu Linyang, Associate Professor, School of Law, East China Normal University)

(This article was published in the 06th issue of China Discipline Inspection and Supervision magazine in 2024)