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Profound underlying principles have been expressed in the way people enjoy leisure since the days of ancient China. It is experienced in a special temperament, mood and flow, grounded in literature and philosophy.
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The house codes (jiaxun) of a lineage group are admonitions for later generations on how to lay a solid foundation for one’s moral life and how to manage the household. They played a very important role in educating the lineage group for cultural pursuits and civility. The way by which jiaxun were passed from generation to generation was through personal example as well as instruction in words, and special emphasis was given to early education and character building for children. The house codes were an important part of the Confucian effort to build a cultural order centred on morality, and components of self-cultivation, household management, governing of the state, and the pacification of all under Heaven. The core was the value identity of a lineage group, but it was also in harmony and unity with mainstream values.
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Duke of Zhou (2002).
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Xuan (2008).
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Guying (1984).
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Huidi, M. (2018). The Mapping of Leisure in Chinese Cultural Tradition. In: Modi, I., Kamphorst, T. (eds) Mapping Leisure. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3632-3_4
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