The Song people have clouds: "The sky does not give birth to Connie, the eternal is as long as night", in the development process of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years, it has the deepest influence and the greatest contributor, and no one can compare with Confucius.
When it comes to Confucius, many people first think of the characters in the textbook:
He was highly respected, but he had a gentle smile, was not tall, and was somewhat hunchbacked; he pioneered the style of private lectures, advocating teaching without class and teaching according to aptitude; he was in a chaotic world of etiquette and bad music, but he advocated benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, and faith, and traveled around the world with his disciples to promote benevolent government; in his later years, he revised the Six Classics, and the Confucianism he founded became an important part of China's excellent traditional culture, which profoundly influenced the thinking and learning of Chinese descendants for thousands of years.
His golden sentences were incorporated into the textbook and became the "understanding and recitation of the whole text" that dominated us from generation to generation.
Although those stories about Confucius will become distorted and faded over time, fortunately, we can see the style of the "Most Holy Prophet" through the classics of later scholars and enter the Confucian spiritual home of Confucius.
The Biography of Confucius
Author: Qian Mu
Adhering to the original intention of "so that even those who do not study ancient history and modern history can understand", Dr. Qian Mu, known as "Neo-Confucianism", collected extensive materials and marked the difficult places about Confucius's troubles one by one with "doubts" one by one, and finally completed this concise and cautious "Biography of Confucius" for ordinary readers.
The book consists of eight chapters, no more than 60,000 words, starting in chronological order from Confucius's ancestors until Confucius's death, and dividing his life into three major sections: education, political, and writing. Through the detailed description of these three major sections, the life deeds of Confucius are restored, and the exact person and what kind of people Confucius did are completely presented, which in turn reveals the essence of Confucius's thought and has high academic value.
Commentary on the Analects (Simplified Chinese)
Author/Translator: Yang Bojun
"Half of the Analects govern the world", since ancient times, whether among scholars or among the common people, the Analects is a sacred scripture that cannot be Chinese insurmountable, and the ideas of its arguments have been soaked into China's political and religious system, social customs, psychological habits, and modes of behavior for more than two thousand years. Many people's comprehensive understanding of the Analects begins with the Analects.
The Analects of the Analects edited by Mr. Yang Bojun are one of the best contemporary analects and enjoy a high reputation among academics and readers. On the basis of the intensive study of the Analects, this book accurately and meticulously annotates and translates the twenty analects. Each chapter is divided into three parts: the original text, the commentary, and the translation, with accurate annotations and smooth and clear translations, which not only provides professional researchers with several clues, but also facilitates ordinary readers to correctly understand the original text of the Analects, which is a good work for both elegant and popular appreciation.
Translation of the University
Author/Translator: Wang Wenjin
Nowadays, more and more people have the need to read Confucian classics, and "University" and "Zhongyong" are of course within the scope of the first reading. The "University" and "Zhongyong" are two of the "Book of Lyps", together with the "Analects" and "Mencius", which are collectively known as the "Four Books", and are famous classics of Chinese Confucianism.
This "Annotations on the Translation of the University Zhongyong" is a selection of Mr. Wang Wenjin's "Translation of the Book of Rites", which selects fourteen articles, including "University" and "Zhongyong", rearranged and simplified horizontally, so that the majority of readers can also understand some ancient ritual music systems and basic Confucian ideas in addition to "University" and "Zhongyong".
"Fu Peirong Talks about Confucius"
Author: Fu Peirong
As a popular teacher of Sinology among young people, Professor Fu Peirong compiled his lectures on the classics of Chinese philosophy into a written manuscript, and then revised it to form this book "Fu Peirong Speaks of Confucius".
The book is divided into four major themes, each of which contains more specific subheadings, the content is simple and easy to understand, the text is easy to read, the structure is complete and comprehensive, and the discussion is complete in one go. The sub-topic expounds the ideological connotation and concept of Confucius, breaks the antagonism between philosophers and works, and talks about human nature, personality, what is the Tao, and what is sacred in a new way.
At the same time, the book also integrates the lives of contemporary people to tell the story of Chinese wisdom that has been passed down for more than 2,000 years. It is hoped that through the example of the whole person, the shape of their own appearance, so that the current people can understand Confucius and his people with a new perspective in the relaxed reading.
The Language of Confucius - Chinese Classics
Author/Translator: Wang Guoxuan, Wang Xiumei
The "Confucius Language" is a classic that records the question-and-answer between Confucius and his disciples in detail, retains a large number of documents that are not included in the Analects, is an essential book for the study of Confucius and Confucianism, and is also an important material for the study of ancient society, politics, economy, cultural relics, and canonical systems.
This work brings together a large number of Confucius's remarks, and recreates many scenes of Confucius and his disciples, Confucius and the people of the time talking about problems. In addition, there are compiled materials on Confucius's family lineage, life, deeds, and Confucius's disciples. Compared with many documents, including the Analects, the Confucius Language has considerable academic value and has been called "the book of Confucius studies".
Confucius and Confucian Philosophy- Studying Chinese Studies with Masters
Author: Liang Qichao
The book contains the in-depth and simple speeches of mr. Liang Qichao, a famous thinker in modern times, on Confucianism at Tsinghua University, which are divided into two parts: Confucius and Confucian philosophy. The main contents include: the deeds of Confucius and the times, the data on which confucius doctrine is studied, the outline of Confucius, the theory and ease of Confucius's philosophy, the conclusions, what is Confucian philosophy, why should we study Confucian philosophy, the research method of Confucian philosophy, and the important issues of Confucian philosophy.
In the book, he moves between learning and society, focusing on the key issues concerned by the academic community and readers, telling the history of the development of Confucianism, telling concise and clear, clear and novel views, and often having unsentified views. In particular, he pays attention to the combination of philosophy and scripture, pays attention to the connection between philosophy and life, and his narration is often full of feelings, so it is very infectious.
Ancient Religion and Ethics: The Roots of Confucianism
Author: Chen Lai
Ancient Religion and Ethics: The Roots of Confucianism, written by Professor Chen Lai, a master of contemporary Chinese sinology and dean of the Institute of Sinology at Tsinghua University, is an unquenchable academic classic.
The book is divided into nine chapters, with a historical vision to carry forward the past, straight book, widely absorb the world's academic frontier research results, put the study of the cultural development of China's pre-axis era in the macro framework of world history for comparative investigation, cross-use anthropology, religion, culture, history and other methods, put forward a series of unique and innovative concepts, views and interpretation frameworks, creatively explain the characteristics and development models of ancient Chinese thought, and have pioneering and exemplary significance in the study of ancient intellectual history. It has important reference value for decoding the development trajectory of early Chinese culture (Xia Shang Wednesday Dynasty) and clarifying the formation of the spiritual temperament of the Chinese nation.
History of Spring and Autumn
Author: Children's Book Industry
How to tell history to ordinary people in plain language while maintaining professionalism? The "Spring and Autumn History" written by Mr. Tong Shuye can be said to be a model.
This "Spring and Autumn History" consists of seventeen chapters, which comprehensively scans the development and changes in all aspects of economic, political, social, and ethnic relations in the complex and changing Spring and Autumn Period, and is a history of dynasties that is easy to understand, static, and dynamic. It is worth mentioning that the book is written in the chapter "The Emergence of Confucius", which analyzes the background of Confucius and his personality and the essence of his thoughts, and evaluates them in the final analysis.
This book is very careful about the handling of materials, and the extremely profound and complicated examination is reduced to a very popular and simple vernacular text, with a rigorous style and popular text, which is a rare work on the history of the Spring and Autumn Period.
Living in the 21st century, we are surrounded by information every day, and we have long known that "understanding a lot of truths cannot live this life well", but Confucius and the Confucian thought he founded have just left us with an attitude of life that has been used for a long time, an attitude towards ourselves, others, and destiny, which transcends time and space and gradually becomes the background of traditional Chinese culture, nourishing Chinese civilization and world civilization.
Someone once said: In fact, Confucius is not far from us at all, he is not elsewhere, he is in every flash of our soul. When you treat others warmly, when you are unswerving in the face of difficulties and sufferings, when you face your responsibilities with knowledge, peace, and respect, you are Confucius.
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