Title
Liao Fan's Guide to Educating Children (了凡训子书) by Beijing Tian Hua Guan (北京天华馆)
Year/Period
Late Qing - early Republican period
Region
China and Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 20.0 x 13.3 x 0.3 cm
Accession No.
2021-00333
Collection of
Liao Fan’s Guide to Educating Children is also known as Liao Fan’s Four Lessons (了凡四训). Yuan Liaofan （袁了凡）of the Ming dynasty wrote this book to teach his son to cultivate kindness and humility and the lesson that one’s destiny can be changed through one’s actions.Such books were commonly imported from China and used in local Chinese schools to teach students to be model and upright individuals.
