Which version is more popular and authoritative when teaching children to read The Analects?

Yang Bojun's version of The Analects is easy to understand. This book is the basic book of The Analects of Confucius. The translation of this book is clear, fluent and plain. When commenting, it is best to interpret according to the habits of Chinese in the pre-Qin period, not to ramble, but to make more extensions; Textual research on the meaning, grammatical rules, rhetorical rules, system of names and things, customs and habits of annotations.

This book is based on Liu Baonan's The Analects of Justice in Qing Dynasty and compiled with reference to many Analects of Confucius. The Analects dictionary (excluding the simplified version) is attached to the back of the book, which is the best reader of the Analects. The disadvantage is that only translation and annotation are simple, annotation is concise, and there is no analysis.

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The Analects of Confucius is one of the classic works of Confucianism and a collection of recorded essays, which mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples in the form of quotations and dialogues, and embodies Confucius' political, aesthetic, moral and utilitarian values.

In the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Yi explained: "The speaker, the sage's language, the commentator, and the Confucian discussion." In fact, "Shang" means compiling. The Analects of Confucius refers to recording the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples and compiling them into books. The Analects of Confucius consists of 20 articles and 492 chapters, of which 444 chapters record what Confucius and his disciples talked about in time, and 48 chapters record what Confucius and his disciples talked about each other.

Confucius established the category of benevolence, and then expounded that courtesy is a reasonable social relationship and a norm to treat people and things, and then expounded the methodological principle of the "golden mean" system. "Benevolence" is the ideological core of The Analects.

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