Illustrated Master Zhu’s Maxims for Managing the Home (绘图朱子治家格言) by Shanghai Shen He Ji Shu Ju (上海沈鹤记书局)

Master Zhu refers to Zhu Bolu (朱柏庐), from the early Qing dynasty. He is most famous for this book on how an ideal Confucian household should be run and how the ideal family head and his family should behave. This book is also one of the most commonly reprinted books on Confucian morality.The text were originally in four-character phrases but this version contains explanations of each phrase in vernacular Chinese.Such books were circulated in the Chinese community in Singapore as the maxims were seen as a guide to a commendable way of life that they sought to emulate.