Shiji. Mozi. Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals

Author: Beijing Four Seas Children's Classic Reading Education Center
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Publication 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 a university student majoring in Chinese, how many can recite the Analects and the Great Learning? And even among Chinese and foreign university students majoring in English, how many can recite the classics of Shakespeare and Aristotle? Yet all of this, a child of around ten years old can achieve, and as a result, becomes increasingly knowledgeable, kind, intelligent, optimistic, and broad-minded—do you believe it? Sima Qian wrote the Records of the Grand Historian out of sheer desperation after his suffering, and it was hailed as the “peerless song of historians, an unrhymed Lament for the Ancient Kingdom.” Here, we selected the Basic Annals of the Five Emperors, starting from the Yellow Emperor, Xuanyuan, and then writing about Zhuanxu, Emperor Kù, Emperor Yao, and Emperor Shun. Mozi was once as famous as Confucius, but later almost became a lost art. Here, we selected The Rules of Law, which advocates that “the law that is not benevolent cannot be the law,” unifying moral governance and the rule of law. The Rules of Law also emphasize “the law must follow the heavens,” aligning with the heavens. Love for All is considered even broader than Confucian love. Veneration of the Worthy advocates appointing the worthy.