Theme: The book records Confucius' conversation, answers disciples' questions and talks with each other, and shows Confucius' various thoughts and theories, including Confucius' political opinions, educational principles, ethical concepts, moral cultivation and literary theory. Therefore, The Analects of Confucius has become the main material for future generations to study Confucius' thoughts.
The Analects faithfully records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and also reflects Confucius' thoughts. There are twenty articles in this edition of The Analects. The core of the political thought of Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, is "benevolence", "courtesy" and "righteousness".
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The Analects of Confucius are mostly quotations, but they are all rich in meaning, and some sentences and chapters are vivid.
Confucius is the center of The Analects. There are not only static descriptions of his manners, but also vivid descriptions of his personality and temperament. In addition, centering on Confucius, The Analects of Confucius also successfully created some images of Confucius disciples.
Such as frankness and recklessness, Yan Hui's virtuous, Zi Gong's cleverness and eloquence, Zeng's naturalness and refinement. , can be called a distinctive personality, can leave a deep impression on people. Confucius taught different students in accordance with their aptitude, taking into account their different qualities, advantages and disadvantages, and the specific situation of studying in Germany.
The main features of The Analects of Confucius are concise language, profound meaning, graceful and smooth style, implicative and meaningful. There is also the display of characters in simple dialogues and actions. At the same time, the language is easy to understand and close to spoken language, which is also a feature.
The Analects of Confucius has been regarded as "the rule of the Five Classics, the throat of the Six Arts" since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "ousted a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", and it is the first-hand material for studying Confucius and Confucianism, especially primitive Confucianism. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu combined Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius into four books, which made his position in Confucian classics improve day by day.
During the life extension period of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial examination began to select scholars with the "four books". From then on, until the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty, the imperial examination was abolished, and The Analects of Confucius has always been the golden rule pursued by scholars.
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