In addition, many family precepts stipulated a strict system of punishments and rewards, and many maxims meant merely as well-intended exhortations were turned into inflexible "family laws."
同時也有不少家訓規定了嚴格的獎懲辦法，家訓從以往苦口婆心的教誨，變成鐵面威嚴的「家法」。