The Analects --- Classic Reading for Primary School Students

Author: He Huaiying
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Publish Date: 2005-10-13
Features: "The Hundred Schools regard Confucius as a person, and the books of the Hundred Schools regard the Analects as a masterpiece." As the founder of Confucianism, Confucius was the pioneer of Chinese written literature, and his literary views continue to have a broad influence to this day. As an important Confucian classic, the Analects vividly portrays Confucius's thoughts and image, imbued with a rich literary flavor. During the two thousand years of the feudal society, Confucianism dominated the intellectual landscape, and Confucius himself was deified. Confucianism and Confucian thought were considered the source of the Hundred Schools and the core of Chinese culture, set apart from the "Hundred Schools." As a work recording the philosophical and political ideas of the Confucian school, the Analects exhibits a clear "political discourse" tone and the characteristics of valuing virtue and merit. In the process of reading, you will unconsciously realize Confucius's diligence, magnanimity, and the profound humanistic that modern people find difficult to achieve. These ideas should be more advocated rather than denied in today's market economy. For example, he is hailed as an "insatiable scholar," a "benevolent person who seeks the good of all under heaven," and a "wise person who understands people and the world." Today, when we read and study the Analects, we should learn his tireless attitude toward learning, his diligent and rigorous approach to handling matters, his sense of responsibility to view things objectively, and his ambition to take all matters under heaven as his own!