Confucius said: The admonitions of a benevolent person

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, compiled by his disciples or their successors. It is divided into twenty chapters and contains 511 sections, with approximately 20,000 characters. This book, along with Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian·Biography of Confucius and Cui Shu's Investigations into the Confucian Records from Zisi, serves as fundamental material for studying the life and thoughts of Confucius. This book introduces Confucius, who lived in 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," he was also a real, flesh-and-blood person of the society. 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 Yu the Great, he could not taste the flavor of meat for a long time; 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.