Why don't modern people learn the Four Books and Five Classics?

Although the Four Books and Five Classics are the important spiritual property of China celebrities, they are the most important Confucian classics and the concentrated expression of Confucianism. However, there are many stupid ideas and backward ideas. The most important thing is that the number of the Four Books and Five Classics (including annotations) is huge and it is not easy to read.

Of course, in the process of reading the Four Books and Five Classics, we should read critically. We should not think that everything they say is correct, but should do it. Instead, we should try to interpret these books from the time and space at that time, understand the thoughts and thoughts of Confucianism at that time, and have a more delicate feeling about the traditional culture of Confucianism from a more macro perspective.

The expansion of the Four Books and Five Classics not only reveals the thoughts, but also brings great benefits to the study of ancient Chinese. Whether reading or translating the original texts of ancient books, we can better understand the ancient characters of many thinkers and figures in the pre-Qin period. Among them, there are poems, essays, quotations, etc., which are good research materials for literary creation at that time.