It is such a delight to have friends coming so far.
Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? -The Analects of Confucius
People who openly commit crimes against Han Chinese will be punished even if they are far away. -"Han Shu"
The Analects of Confucius:
It is a collection of quotations compiled by the disciples of Confucius, a thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was written in the early Warring States Period. This book has 20 articles and 492 chapters.
It is mainly based on quoting classics and supplemented by narration, 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 is one of the Confucian classics and 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 values.
The Analects of Confucius covers politics, education, literature, philosophy and ways of living. As early as the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Confucius set up an altar to give lectures, its main contents were initially established.
After the death of Confucius, his disciples and descendants handed down his remarks from generation to generation, and gradually recorded the words and deeds of these oral quotations.
Therefore, it is called "theory"; The Analects of Confucius mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, so it is called "language". In Qing Dynasty, Zhao Yi explained: "The speaker is the language of saints, and the commentator is the discussion of Confucianism.