Scholars, for instance, liked to post aphoristic phrases on either side of their main gate to provide constant, passive edification to their sons and grandsons. Scrolls of this sort became part of a child's at-home moral upbringing.
例如，讀書人最喜歡把格言類的內容寫成春聯，且貼在大門兩端，子孫每日進出很難視而不見，天天複習，春聯便有了「庭訓」的效果。