The Four Books and Five Classics are collectively called the Four Books and Five Classics, and they are nine classic works of Confucianism.
The Four Books and Five Classics have achieved the status of "classics" for a long time. The four books include The University, The Doctrine of the Mean and The Book of Rites, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu annotated these four books and compiled them into a Collection of Notes on Four Books, thus establishing the names of the four books. The Five Classics include poetry, calligraphy, ceremony, the Book of Changes and the Spring and Autumn Period. Its name was established during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the Five Classics were established, reaching the highest position in ruling ideology and scholarship.
The Four Books and Five Classics recorded the historical materials of ancient cultural relics in China, and discussed Confucian philosophy, politics, ethics, culture and education. It is the core book for Confucian scholars in past dynasties and occupies a very important position in the traditional culture of China.
Introduction to "University":
Da Xue was originally an article in the Book of Rites, which had never been published separately before the Southern Song Dynasty. It is said that it was written by Zeng Shen, a disciple of Confucius (505-434 BC). From the Tang Dynasty when Han Yu and Li Ao praised the university (and the Doctrine of the Mean) to maintain orthodoxy, to the Northern Song Dynasty when Cheng Er praised and publicized it in various ways, and even called it "University, Confucius' suicide note, an introduction to morality", and then to the Southern Song Dynasty when Zhu inherited Cheng Er's thought and took the university out of the Book of Rites,
Notes on Four Books, The Analects of Confucius, Mencius and The Doctrine of the Mean are listed as one of the four books. Zhu and Cheng Yi, another famous scholar in Song Dynasty, believed that Da Xue was a suicide note left by Confucius and his disciples, and an introductory reading of Confucianism. Therefore, Zhu listed it as the first of the "four books".
The way of university is to be moral, to be close to the people and to stop at perfection. Zhi Zhi then has a decision, then he can be quiet, then he can be quiet, then he can be safe, then he can think about it, and then he can get it. Things have a beginning and an end, and things have a beginning and an end. If you know the order, you will find a shortcut.