The Analects is a Confucian classic, which is the proposition and doctrine of Confucius in the fields of ideology and politics, philosophical culture, ethics and morality, education and self-cultivation, and since the Song Dynasty, together with the "University", "Zhongyong" and "Mencius", it has been called "Four Books", which is an important symbol of traditional Chinese culture.
Mr. Qian Mu said that the Analects are the Bible of Chinese and should be a must-read book for everyone Chinese. When Mr. Qian was in his nineties, he was still reading the Analects, and advised people to read the Analects every day, even if they read one chapter a day, from the age of twenty to sixty, from "regular reading" to "long reading", you can read it forty times, and many people can read it a hundred times.
Confucian academic thought is the cornerstone of the study of traditional Chinese culture, and the way of Confucius and Mencius is the foundation of Confucianism, and to study Confucius's academic thought, we must first understand the Analects. The Analects is an important Confucian classic that records Confucius's speech and deeds, the relevant chapters and sentences are endlessly noted, and All the interpretations, deductions and plays of the original text of Lao Yu's "Shihui" are based on authoritative translations such as Yang Bojun and Yu Xinle, which are both "knowledgeable" and "readable", which helps readers to read and understand the entire text of the Analects.
In the final analysis, what is the original meaning of the Classics of Sinology to guide our life and cultivation and even social development? This is difficult to determine, or even inconclusive. All research and annotations are based on current cultural trends and social circumstances or personal experiences. Based on this, when we read the classics, we should also focus on thinking and practicing, so as to gain a deep feeling for the essence of life.
"Analects of Shihui" is the author's experience of reading the "Analects" in combination with his own life experience, with "Shihui" as the title of the book, it is a warning, after thousands of views and the classics handed down can be "ancient for the present", and if you learn from it properly, you can cultivate yourself and enter morality. In his works, the author injects a large number of common cases in life, with vivid interpretation and rich associations, so that readers can easily understand the "Analects" at the same time, but also re-inject Confucian ideas such as "benevolence" and "etiquette" into the blood of Chinese sons and daughters, so that people can emphasize etiquette and morality, and can also soothe the impetuousness and utilitarianism of the present world.
The author is Lao Yu, a post-70s polytechnic man, who now lives in Shenzhen. Good reading and seeking to understand, re-reading the "Analects" is to learn from reality, inherit traditional Chinese culture, if it can help "establish oneself as a person", it is to add color to "cultural self-confidence".
The Analects begins with "Zi Yue" and ends with "Zi Yue", just like the "Preface" and "Afterword" of this classic, the preface emphasizes "study", and the afterword emphasizes "knowing fate, knowing etiquette, knowing words, and knowing people". From this point of view, an Analects also happens to interpret a person's life, from learning to being a person, and the truth in it is all in this classic. Reading the classics, the Analects pick up wisdom, cultivate self-cultivation, and cultivate self-cultivation.