"University" was originally an article in The Book of Rites of Little Dai, which was written by. Many contemporary scholars believe that it is actually a Confucian work in Qin and Han dynasties and an important work to explore ancient educational theory.

Before the Song Dynasty, the status of universities was not very prominent. After Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi tried their best to respect the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhu wrote The Great Learning in the Southern Song Dynasty. Daxue became an important chapter in Confucian classics, and was finally called the "Four Books" together with The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, "University" became the official textbook of the school and the required reading of the imperial examination, which had a great influence on ancient education.

The core idea of "University" is to define a virtue (singleness), to be unique in one thing, and to achieve perfection and beauty through ever-changing efforts. Pan Ming in Tang Dynasty said for the second time:' New is new, new is new. "Crescent Mountain Man (Zhu Jincheng) said to him," The month is different, the month is different, and then the month is different. "Horizontal batch:" changes with each passing day. "

There are two main versions of Da Xue: one is Da Sentence, which is compiled by Zhu and divided into classics and biographies, and is one of the "Four Books"; First, the ancient books arranged in the original order, that is, the original "university" in the Book of Rites.