The creation time is the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the source of the work is The Book of Rites, and the literary genre is prose. "University" is an essay on Confucian thoughts of self-cultivation, governing the country and calming the world. It turned out to be the 42nd article of Little Dai Li Ji.
Legend has it that it was written by Ceng Zi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is actually a Confucian work in Qin and Han Dynasties and an important educational theory work in ancient China.
Appreciation of university works
The outlook on life put forward by the university is inextricably linked with Confucianism, which is basically a further expansion of the Confucian outlook on life. This outlook on life requires paying attention to personal cultivation and embracing positive goals. This kind of cultivation and requirement is mainly based on Confucian morality.
The three cardinal guides and eight aims have class nature, and "virtue" and "supreme goodness" are the political requirements and ethical standards of feudalism for monarchs. Eight items, such as "discipline" and "knowledge", require the combination of political ideas and ethical thoughts in the three programs in terms of self-cultivation.