Six Classics refers to the six classic works of Confucianism, which are called The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi, Jing Yue and Chunqiu. University is Book 42 of the Book of Rites. Because Yue Ji has been lost, Poems, Books, Rites, Changes and Chunqiu are also called the Five Classics.
Later, after the Neo-Confucianism of Cheng Yi and Zhu in the Song Dynasty, Daxue was finally called the "Four Books" together with The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius.
"University" is an essay on the Confucian thought of self-cultivation and governing the country. Originally the 42nd article of The Book of Rites of Little Dai, it is said that it was written by. 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.
Introduction to "University"
The full text of "Da Xue" is concise, profound and far-reaching. This paper mainly summarizes the pre-Qin Confucian moral cultivation theory, as well as the basic principles and methods of moral cultivation, and also systematically discusses the Confucian political philosophy, which has profound enlightenment for being a man, doing things and governing the country.
University comes from the Book of Rites, which was originally the 42nd of 49 articles. The Book of Rites, formerly known as The Book of Rites of Little Dai, was decorated by Emperor Xuandi of Emperor Gaozu.
Based on a group of anonymous Confucian works left over from history. According to Ban Gu, a dynastic historian, who bet on The Seventy-year-old Scholar in The Book of Rites 131, it is believed that the writing years of the various articles in The Book of Rites are mainly distributed from the early Warring States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty.