Eight items are "eight items", and "University" put forward "three programs" and "eight items", which are referred to as "three programs" and "eight items" for short. It is emphasized that self-cultivation is the premise of governing people, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to manage the family, the country and the world, which shows the internal relationship between governing the country and leveling the world and personal moral cultivation.
Confucianism integrates the political theories of knowledge, knowledge, honesty, faithfulness, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, and governing the country and the world into an inseparable system, which makes the Confucian moral theory more systematic and theoretical and more suitable for the feudal patriarchal hierarchy and feudal rulers.
Introduction to "University":
"University" said: Those whose ancient desires are obviously superior to the world should rule their country first. If you want to govern your country, you should unite your family first. If you want to keep your family together, you should trim your body first. If you want to cultivate yourself, you should be upright first. If you want to be right, be sincere first.
If you want to be sincere, let him know first. Knowledge exists in things. "The eight items of" University "are called by later generations and are concrete steps to realize the three programs.
The central link of the eight events is self-cultivation, which is the external way of self-cultivation. Sincerity and integrity are the inherent premise of self-cultivation, and housekeeping, governing the country and leveling the world are the higher-level self-realization of self-cultivation Therefore, at the end of the first article of "University", it is said that from Tian Zi to Shu Ren, it is based on self-cultivation.