University comes from the Book of Rites, which was originally the 42nd of 49 articles. The Book of Rites was originally named The Book of Rites of Little Dai, also known as The Book of Little Dai. It was compiled by Dai Sheng in Xuan Di era according to a batch of anonymous Confucian works left over from history.
Ban Gu, a dynastic historian, notes that "The Book of Rites was written by the people after 1970s" in 131 Historical Records, and thinks that the book was written mainly from the early Warring States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty.
Cui Shu, a native of Qing Dynasty, said, "The style of every article is exhausted by time ..." There are too many words in Daxue, so it should be in the Warring States period. "On the whole," Da Xue "was written after Confucius and before Mencius and Xunzi in the early Warring States period, that is, around the 5th century BC, and it was a pure Confucian work of Zeng School.
That is to say, "Da Xue" should be a work in the early Warring States period, and its author should be "Zeng's Confucianism", which is now recognized by academic circles as the work of Zeng Shen in the early Warring States period. ?
Before the Song Dynasty, universities were subordinate to the Book of Rites. Although Daxue was not independent from The Book of Rites, Dong Zhongshu in the Western Han Dynasty, Zheng Xuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Kong and Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty made important contributions to the inheritance and development of Daxue and influenced its academic status.
Dong Zhongshu's contribution to the "University" mainly lies in raising Confucian classics from folk thought to the height of national ideology, which opened the starting point for Confucianism to become an official study, a prominent study and a national study.
Zheng Xuan proofread various manuscripts of The Book of Rites circulated at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, which made the Book of Rites spread all over the world and has been passed down to this day. One of his works, The Book of Rites and the University, is the earliest university research work that can be tested today.
Kong's interpretation of universities emphasizes the key role of "honesty". He divided the text of Daxue into two parts, paving the way for Zhu to divide Daxue into two parts: classics and biography.
Han Yu regards "benevolence" as the basis of "Tao" and "university" as the basic point, and puts forward the Confucian moral cultivation path of "being upright, sincere, cultivating oneself, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world". In The Original Road, he quoted Daxue, which is famous for its ancient desires, to prove and publicize the Confucian orthodoxy, and regarded Daxue, Mencius and Yijing as equally important Confucian classics, which improved the position of Daxue in the Confucian orthodoxy. ?