魏晉南北朝時期，雖然朝代更迭不已，但是門第卻遞嬗相承，延續不斷；土地雖然分裂南北，豪門卻互通訊息，鞏固門祚，其中的主要原因便在於世家大族兇者深厚的學業與文化素養。他們設立家館，由父兄擔負傳授家學的重責，讓子弟研習經學、文學、史學、書法、繪畫等各方面的學業，在官學不振的時代裡，為私學教育注入蓬勃的生命力。

　　　　　There are chaos and social upheavals brought about by wars during the Wei-Chin-Nan-Pei Dynasty. The gentry are still prosperous for their family traits. The male seniors taught their young dependents in the family schools. The family trails contained the teaching of the Confucius, literature, history, calligraphy and painting, etc.