程颢、程颐兄弟是北宋时期著名的理学家、教育家,他们的成就和德行,与母亲自幼的严格教导密不可分。程颐作有《上谷郡君家传》(“上谷郡君”是程母侯氏的封号),对此略有记载。侯氏聪悟过人,精于女红,博知古今。十九嫁入程家,侍奉公婆孝顺恭谨,夫妇二人相敬如宾,内外亲戚无不敬爱。就是这样一位贤淑女子,唯独对自己的子女格外严苛:诸儿有过,则不掩也。常曰:“子之所以不肖者,由母蔽其过而 Cheng Yong and Cheng Yi brothers were well-known physicists and educators in the Northern Song Dynasty. Their achievements and virtues are inseparable from their mother’s strict teaching. Cheng Yi made a ”Shangu Junjun Biography“ (”Shangu County Jun “ is the title of Cheng Hou’s Hou), which is slightly documented. Hou Satoshi extraordinary, skilled in female red, Bo know ancient and modern. Nineteen married into the procession, serving his in-laws filial piety, the couple dutiful, both relatives and dear friends. It is such a virtuous woman, only exceptionally harsh on their own children: children have had, do not hide too. Often said: ”The reason why the child is not bad, by the mother of its passing