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 majoring in Chinese, how many can memorize the Analects and the Great Learning? And for Chinese and foreign university students majoring in English, how many can recite the works of Shakespeare and Aristotle? Yet all of 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 perseverance after suffering great hardships, 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 emphasizes "following the heavens," aligning with the heavens. The All-Mercy is considered even broader than Confucian love. The Exaltation of the Worthy advocates appointing the worthy.