Shiji · Mozi · Lüshi Chunqiu (missing tapes)

Author: Beijing Siha Children's Classic Reading Education Center
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
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 majoring in Chinese, how many can memorize the "Analects" and the "Great Learning"? And even for Chinese and foreign university students majoring in English, how many can recite the works of Shakespeare and Aristotle? Yet all this can be achieved by a child of about ten years old, and as a result, they gradually become knowledgeable, kind, intelligent, optimistic, and broad-minded. Do you believe it? Sima Qian wrote the "Records of the Grand Historian" as a masterpiece of self-improvement after suffering a great injustice, and it is hailed as "the peerless song of the historian, an unrhymed Lament for the Departed." Here, we have selected the "Records of the Five Emperors," starting with the Yellow Emperor, followed by Zhuan Xu, Emperor Ku, Emperor Yao, and Emperor Shun. Mozi was once as famous as Confucius, but later almost became a lost art. Here, we have selected "The Legal Rites," which advocates that "laws that are not benevolent cannot be laws," unifying moral governance and legal governance. The "Legal Rites" also emphasize "following the heavens," aligning with the celestial order. "Universal Love" is considered even more extensive than Confucian love. "Exalting the Worthy" advocates appointing the virtuous.