F-3 The Study on the Family Precepts of the Rich Chois in KyoungJoo
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KoungJoo, KyoungSang province in Chosun (朝鮮) dynasty. According to a legend, the family was a powerful clan locally, and had plenty of wealth and private soldiers in Korea (高麗) dynasty (prior to Chosun dynasty). A legendary amount of the Chois' wealth kept for about a thousand year. The rich Chois was the family who had kept its own vast fortune generation after generation in thousand year was used to sponsor the war fund against the Japanese invaision of Korea (壬辰倭亂 or 文祿 慶長〓 役) and the the independence movement under the rule of Japanese imperialism. Moreover, the surplus fund was invested to found a YoungNam University (嶺南大學校). The rich Chois could hold the wealth for such a long time because Chois had its own special management philosophy (MP). This MP was expressed as family precepts which should be followed by family members. These precepts helped descendants to keep good family and their own fame. These sorts of precepts should be easy to keep and to win the sympathy of family members. Therefore, the MP needed to be based on a good ideology and to be easy to memorize. Moreover, the MP expressed as the precepts would be a good instruction to other people today, thus, it is observed in this article. Certainly, the are divided into 3 big parts and imparted to generation after generation, precepts were the lessons to keep the fortune and the honor of the family. The family precepts. The key precepts are following.1) Even if you take the governmental exam, do not over rank. 2) Don't accumulate the fortune more than 10,000 seoms rice. 3) Give great hospitalities to the tors. 4) Don't make a fortune during the year of bad harvest. 5) Daughters-in-law who marry into Chois family should not bring anything more than silver hair-pin and should put on cotton clothes for the first 3 years. 6) Don't make others starve to death within a radius of 100 Li^2. 7) Do Yang Ip We Chool (量入爲出)! The phrase, 'Do Yang Ip We Chool (量入爲出)!' means 'Decide the amount of money to use after calculating the earnings in advance!' 8) Do not buy the closing product (罷場 商品) and do hot discount the original price in the market.
- 2006-11-11