"In teaching children, it is better to cultivate right manners and virtue in the simple daily life rather than filling them with outer luxury."
Today's Question
Among the unconscious attitudes you inherited from parents or mentors, what is the 'most precious habit of life' you want to pass on to the next generation?
The artist who raised Korea's greatest genius with brush and needle
Shin Saimdang was a poet and painter of Joseon celebrated for her outstanding artistic achievements. In education, she valued daily manners rather than strict study.
She painted grass and insects (Chochungdo) after precise observation. A story says a chicken mistook her painting of an insect for a real one and pecked at it. Seeing her mother's calm and dedicated daily attitude, her son Yi I (Yulgok) built a firm framework of life.