《颜氏家训·后娶篇》
继母生的孩子和前妻生的孩子，会有在衣服饮食以及婚姻仕宦做官上的差异，甚至会有士庶贵贱之间隔，而当地的习俗竟然认为这是很正常的。等到父亲去世以后，家里的人会为了诉讼挤破衙门，把诽谤污辱的言语嚷嚷得行人都能听见，前妻的孩子辱骂继母为小老婆，继母的孩子则贬斥前妻之子为仆役。们肆意传扬去世父亲的隐私，暴露家中先人的是非长短，以此来证明自己有理，这样的事情在再娶的家庭里常常出现！
后母之弟，与前妇之兄，衣服饮食，爰及婚宦，至于士庶贵贱之隔，俗以为常，身没之后，辞讼盈公门，谤辱彰道路，子诬母为妾，弟黜兄为佣，播扬先人之辞迹，暴露祖考之长短，以求直己者，往往而有，悲夫！
The children born to the stepmother and the children born to the ex-wife would have differences in clothing, food and marriage and official career. There would even be a gap between the nobility and the common people, and local customs actually thought this was normal. After the father died, the family members would throng the government office for a lawsuit, shouting slanderous and insulting words for passersby to hear. The children of the ex-wife would abuse the stepmother as a young woman, while the children of the stepmother would belittle the children of the ex-wife as servants. They would spread their deceased father's privacy at will, exposing the right and wrong of their ancestors, so as to prove that they were right. This often happened in remarried families!