Mr. Qian Mu said that the Analects should be a must-read book for everyone Chinese. Not only China, but also this book should become a must-read book for all human beings in the world.
Why is the Analects a must-read for everyone?
Which passages must be memorized?
How should the Analects be read?
Analects: How to be a human being
An Analects, important to teach people is not in knowledge or theory. The importance of traditional Chinese doctrine is talking about "people". Upon reading the Analects, I understood how to "be a man who is tight." That is, to tighten the grip on the matter of being a person. If you want to know the ancient rites, you can read the Left Transmission; if you want to know ancient literature, you can read the Book of Poetry. Confucius only talked about how to behave.
Life is the means, life is the end
But life should be divided into aspects: one is "life" and the other is "life". There is a big difference between the two. "Life" is only its means, while "life" is its end. Only Confucius could not ignore life, but pay more attention to its life, so that life does not stop at the same time. There are parents on the top, children on the bottom, fathers to sons, sons to grandchildren, so that there is no limit, and each other into the great life of a nation, straight to the present.
The above content is excerpted from Qian Mu's "Persuasion to Read the Analects and the Analects of Reading"
"Persuasion to Read the Analects and the Analects of Reading"
Mr. Ji Qianmu's experience in reading the Analects was recommended by Qian Xun, former director of the Institute of Ideology and Culture of Tsinghua University, on how to read the Analects today.