The three points put forward in Great Learning, namely "showing virtue", "being close to the people" and "stopping at perfection", are called "the program of great learning".

Eight projects:

Eight items are called "the items of a university", namely, discipline, knowledge, honesty, honesty, self-cultivation, governing the country and leveling the world. Later, people referred to it as "three cardinal guides and eight disciplines" or "three cardinal guides and eight orders".

Introduction of three projects and eight projects:

China's Central Argument about Summary in Neo-Confucianism of Song and Ming Dynasties. In his book Zhong Fang, three points are called "the program of university" and eight points are called "the items of university", such as discipline, knowledge, sincerity, integrity, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world. Later, people referred to it as "three cardinal guides and eight disciplines" or "three cardinal guides and eight orders". These three programs and eight items became the important contents of feudal political ethics philosophy in later generations. The University itself does not explain "the style of things" and "knowledge". Zhu thought it was a defect of the original text, so he added it to the first chapter, briefly expressing his own objective idealist epistemology and adding philosophical content to the university. Since then, there has been a debate between different factions within Neo-Confucianism and between Neo-Confucianism and anti-Neo-Confucianism thinkers, which objectively promoted the development of theoretical thinking and enriched the philosophical history of China in the late feudal society.