The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean are from Ceng Zi's Book of Rites in the Spring and Autumn Period. The Analects of Confucius was written by Confucius and his disciples, while Mencius was written by Mencius and his disciples Zhang Wan, Gong Sunchou and others.

1, "University" is an essay on Confucian thoughts of self-cultivation, governing the country and leveling the world. It was originally the forty-second article in the Book of Rites, and it is said that it was written by Ceng Zi. In fact, it is a Confucian work in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it is an important work for China to discuss educational theory in ancient times.

2. The Doctrine of the Mean is one of Confucian classics. It turned out to be Article 31 of the Book of Rites. The writing time of the characters is about from the end of the Warring States to the Western Han Dynasty, and the author is still inconclusive. Confucian scholars in the Song Dynasty respected the golden mean, so they took it out of The Book of Rites and wrote it independently, while Zhu was co-edited with The Analects of Confucius, Mencius and Daxue into four books.

The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations from Confucius and his disciples. Compiled by Confucius' disciples and re-disciples, the book was written in the early Warring States period. The book * * * consists of 20 chapters and 492 sections. It mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and embodies Confucius' political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles.

Mencius was written by Mencius and his disciples Zhang Wan and Gongsun Chou in the middle of the Warring States Period. Mencius consists of seven articles and fourteen volumes. The total number of words is more than 35,000 words and 286 chapters. This book records the politics, education, philosophy, ethical thoughts and political activities of Mencius and his disciples.

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The Book of Rites, compiled by Dai Sheng, a ritual scientist in the Western Han Dynasty, mainly records the ritual system in the pre-Qin period, and embodies the Confucian philosophical thoughts (such as the view of heaven, world and life), educational thoughts (such as personal cultivation and educational system), political thoughts (such as educational politics, building a harmonious society, ritual system and criminal law) and aesthetic thoughts (such as the theory of material sense and the theory of harmony between rites and music) in the pre-Qin society.

The Book of Rites is one of the three rites, one of the five classics and one of the thirteen classics. The knowledge and ideological theory of ancient cultural history recorded in the Book of Rites have an important influence on the inheritance of Confucian culture, contemporary cultural education and moral cultivation, and the construction of a harmonious socialist society.

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