Three cardinal principles: mingde, close to the people, stop at the best.

Eight goals: discipline, knowledge, honesty, honesty, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world.

"University" puts forward "three programs" and "eight items", emphasizing that self-cultivation is the premise of governing people, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to keep the family in order, govern the country and level the world, and expounds the internal relationship between governing the country and level the world and personal moral cultivation.

Some people also summed up the "six syndromes" according to the relationship between the "three cardinal guides" and "eight cardinal guides".

Six syndromes: stop, settle, be calm, be safe, worry and gain.

Nan, a famous master of Chinese studies, put forward a new view of three cardinal guides and eight cardinal guides. He pointed out that it should be four cardinal principles, seven certificates and eight orders.

Four principles: the way of university, virtue, being close to the people and perfection.

Seven syndromes: knowing, stopping, deciding, deciding, being safe, worrying and gaining.

Eight goals: discipline, knowledge, honesty, honesty, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world.