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5<br />

Family<br />

Honorable households capably entertain<br />

Students, elders, ascetics<br />

Flourishing families happily patronize<br />

Vagabond, pensioner, peasant<br />

Godhead, guest, ancestor, kindred<br />

Happy homes adore<br />

Honest & hospitable households<br />

Preserve familial posterity<br />

Love & virtue nurtured<br />

Enhances happy marriages<br />

When marital tranquility mastered<br />

Celestialism seems unnecessary<br />

Our wonderful family way<br />

Mankindʹs finest path<br />

Structured domesticity assists society<br />

Praise stable households<br />

Truly virtuous family life<br />

Surpasses even asceticism<br />

Crofts of honest happiness<br />

Lofty as Olympus<br />

6<br />

Wives<br />

Happy, house‐proud, economical wives<br />

Husbands deem ideal<br />

Wives without domestic excellence<br />

Lifeʹs irresponsible chaff<br />

Worthy wives enrich lives<br />

Worthless wives deprive<br />

Our most majestic women<br />

Command loyal chastity<br />

When women worship husbands<br />

Heaven worships women<br />

Deem them wonderful wives;<br />

Vigilant, attentive, unblemished<br />

When faithful chastity exists<br />

Why gulag wives?<br />

By winning revered husbands<br />

Wives themselves revered<br />

If wives act dishonorably<br />

Menʹs lionsteps falter<br />

Children of worthy wives<br />

Ornament our lives

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