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Author: Cai Zhizhong
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: The Analects is a book recording the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, as compiled by his disciples or their successors. It is divided into twenty chapters and contains 511 sections, with approximately 20,000 words in total. This book, along with Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian·Biography of Confucius and Cui Shu's Investigations into the Confucian Classics, serves as fundamental material for studying the life and thoughts of Confucius. This book introduces Confucius, who lived during the late Spring and Autumn period. Unlike the later feudal rulers of China who glorified and deified him as the "King Wen" or the "Great Sage, First Teacher of All Time," Confucius was also an ordinary, flesh-and-blood human being in reality. Confucius had a great fondness for music. When he listened to the Shao music in Qi, which was said to date back to the era of Emperor Shun, he could not taste the flavor of meat for a long time afterward. If someone sang well, he would always ask them to sing again, and then he would sing along himself. He also had a strong interest in poetry.