This sentence comes from Confucius' The Analects of Confucius Wei Linggong, which mainly means that when a gentleman encounters a problem, he will look for the reason from himself, while a villain always tries his best to shirk his responsibility, tidy up himself, never reflect on himself and look for the reason from himself.
The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations compiled by the disciples of Confucius, a thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period. Written in the early Warring States period. The book * * * consists of 20 chapters and 492 sections, with quotation as the main body and narrative as the supplement, which embodies the political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles of Confucius and Confucianism.
Most of the works are quotations, but the words are rich in meaning, and some sentences and chapters are vivid. Their main features are concise language, easy to understand and far-reaching ideas. They have an elegant and subtle style, which can express characters in simple dialogues and actions. ?
The Analects of Confucius has been listed as one of the "Four Books" since the Song Dynasty, and it has become a must-read bibliography for official textbooks and imperial examinations in ancient schools. The Analects of Confucius is 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 views.
The influence of The Analects of Confucius on later generations
The Analects of Confucius is one of Confucian classics. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "ousted a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", The Analects of Confucius has been regarded as "the rule of five classics and the throat of six arts", which is the first-hand information 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.