Shiji · Mozi · Lüshi Chunqiu

Author: Beijing Four Seas Children's Classic Reading Education Center
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: As Chinese people, how many have read the Four Books and Five Classics? As Americans, how many can recite the Declaration of Independence? Even for a university student specializing in Chinese, how many can memorize the Analects and the Great Learning? And for Chinese and foreign university students specializing in English, how many can recite the works of Shakespeare and Aristotle? Yet all of this can be achieved by a child of around ten years old, and as a result, they become increasingly knowledgeable, kind, intelligent, optimistic, and broad-minded. Do you believe it? Sima Qian wrote the Records of the Grand Historian as a masterpiece of perseverance after enduring great suffering, hailed as "the peerless song of the historian, an unrhymed Lament for the State." Here, we have selected the Annals of the Five Emperors, starting with the Yellow Emperor, Xuanxu, Emperor Kui, Emperor Yao, and Emperor Shun. Mozi was once as renowned as Confucius, but later his teachings nearly became a lost art. Here, we have selected the Institutional Principles, which advocates that "laws that are not benevolent cannot be laws," unifying moral governance and legal governance. The Institutional Principles also emphasizes "following the heavens," aligning with the principles of the universe. The All-Mercy is considered even more extensive than Confucian love. The Exaltation of the Worthy advocates appointing the virtuous.