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The Analects of Confucius is one of the classic works of Confucianism, compiled by Confucius' disciples and his re-disciples. It mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and embodies Confucius' political opinions, logical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles. And The Doctrine of the Mean, Mencius, Poems, Books, Rites, Changes and Chunqiu. Also known as "Four Books and Five Classics". There are twenty popular Analects of Confucius.

As a Confucian classic, The Analects is profound and all-encompassing, and its thoughts mainly include three independent and closely dependent categories: ethics-benevolence, social and political category-courtesy, and cognitive methodology category-the mean. Benevolence, first of all, is the true state in people's hearts. The final compromise must be kindness, and this true and kind state is "benevolence". Confucius established the category of benevolence, and then expounded etiquette as a reasonable social relationship and a norm for dealing with others, and then expounded the methodological principle of the "golden mean" system. "Benevolence" is the ideological core of The Analects.

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The Analects of Confucius has the pen and ink of Confucius disciples as well as the pen and ink of Confucius disciples, so the works are chronological. This point is also properly reflected in the use of word meaning. For example, the word "master" generally refers to a third party in an earlier era, which is equivalent to "his old man's house". It was not until the Warring States period that it was widely used as a respectful pronoun for the second person, which was equivalent to "your old man's house".

The general usage of The Analects of Confucius is equivalent to "other old people". Confucius students call Confucius "Zi" to his face, "Master" behind his back, "Master" behind others, and "Master" behind others.

There are only two exceptions in Yang Huo's 17th. Yan Yan said to Confucius, "Xi Zheyan also heard the masters"; Lutz also told Confucius that "the past is also known to Confucius", and the capital was called "Confucius" to his face and regarded "Confucius" as "your old man", which was the end of the meaning of the word "Confucius" in the early years of the Warring States Period.

Cui Shu thinks that several chapters in The Analects of Confucius are "complicated" in Zhu Si Xin Lu, which is of course arbitrary. However, the writing of The Analects of Confucius seems to come first, with an interval of 30 years or even longer.