The works of Confucius' words and deeds are: "Poetry", "Book", "Ritual", "Music", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn". After his death, his disciples and his disciples recorded the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples. Thoughts and compiled into "The Analects of Confucius".
The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry. It is the first collection of poetry, which collects poetry from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. There are 311 poems, 6 of which are Sheng poems, with only the title , without content, is known as the six Sheng poems "Nanxin", "Baihua", "Huashui", "Yougeng" and "Chongqiu"; "Shangshu" is the earliest collection of political and historical materials in our country.
Classics
The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations from Confucius and his disciples. It was compiled by Confucius's disciples and his disciples, and was completed in the early Warring States Period. The book consists of 20 chapters and 492 chapters, mainly in the form of quotations and supplemented by narratives. It mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and embodies Confucius's political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles in a relatively concentrated manner.
Ideological content
The Analects of Confucius is a classic work of Confucianism. It is a collection of quotation-style prose that mainly records words. As early as the period when Confucius set up a lecture forum in the late Spring and Autumn Period, its main content had been initially created; after Confucius's death, his disciples and re-disciples passed down his remarks from generation to generation, and gradually recorded these orally recited quotations, words and deeds. Therefore, It is called "Lun"; "The Analects" mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, so it is called "Yu".
Zhao Yi of the Qing Dynasty explained: "The speaker is the language of the saints, and the commentator is the discussion of the Confucian scholars." In fact, "Lun" also means compilation. The so-called "The Analects" refers to the The words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples were recorded and compiled into books. There are 20 chapters and 492 chapters in The Analects of Confucius, of which about 444 chapters record conversations between Confucius and his disciples, and 48 chapters record conversations between Confucius and his disciples.
As a Confucian classic, "The Analects" has broad, profound and all-encompassing content. The thoughts of "The Analects" mainly have three categories that are both independent and closely dependent on each other: the ethical and moral category - benevolence, and the social and political category - Category of Rites and Cognition Methodology - Doctrine of the Mean. Benevolence, first of all, is a true state deep in the human heart. The ultimate compromise must be goodness. This overall state of truth and goodness is "benevolence".
Confucius established the category of benevolence, and then elaborated rites as a reasonable social relationship and norms for dealing with others that are adapted to and expresses benevolence, and then clarified the systematic methodological principle of "golden mean".