Yang Chang Ji Family Ethics Research

Yang Changji is a well-known educator and ethicists in modern hina.His ethics thoughts have rich contents, wide coverage, and specific views.This article is mainly to study Yang Changji’s family ethics.Yang Changji was first on internalizing Confucius and Mencius, Neo,mainly concentrated in the individual morality accomplishment, pursuit.Under the influence of progressive ideas, he began to care about politics,national destiny, advocated the revitalization of agricultural and industrialpowerhouse. Later, he started his studying abroad for a decade, learningwestern cultures. After returning, he made a unique with Ethics personalcharacteristics combined with the reality. Its ethical thinking is mainlyaffected by family, age. traditional culture and western, etc.Yang Changji advocate equality, freedom of family ethics. He opposedthe doctrine family, family members, advocates mutual respect, emphasison individual self-reliance.He advocated freedom of marriage, polygamyand early marriage opposition, advocating eugenics. He believes that thefamily is the fundamental thriving industrious and thrifty, the proposed lifeinsurance, accounting, no debt, know how to lay aside, not to be ashamedand so vulgar statesman of the law. He believes bad family life, will lead tothe decline of family. He attached great importance to family education,especially education in patriotism. Yang Changji determined salvaging hispatriotism affects children, daughter YangKaiHui, AnYing grandson,granddaughter Yang Chin have died for the country.Yang Changji’s family ethics thought was from the Angle of reality,reflecting on traditional and western ideas, integration of Chinese andwestern to form their own thoughts. His thought is close to people’s life, anddo acting to apply what they learn.His idea is new, but restricted by time.Yang Changji’s Modern Family Ethics is of important significance to responsibilities of family members, respect the marital relationship,consumption and storage reservoir, family education, civilized life etc.