The family is the cell of the society, the existence of the family wind must be the social agitation to adapt. Since emperor wudi of the han dynasty, "the removal of hundreds of scholars, the only Confucianism", the Confucian values filial piety, loyalty, loyalty, faith, courtesy, righteousness, incorruptibility and shame, is "eight virtues". As a norm of behavior of the feudal society, the eight virtues generally existed in the family style.

The ancient family wind wenyuan shows the representative characters and classic family style literature in the formation of ancient three classes, four dimensions, five, five, five, and eight virtues.