"University" is an essay on Confucian thoughts of self-cultivation, governing the country and leveling the world. Originally the 42nd Book of Rites Dai Xiao, it is said that it was written by Ceng Zi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. 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.

The "Three Outlines" and "Eight Items" put forward in "University" emphasize that self-cultivation is the premise of governing people, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to govern the country and the world, which shows the consistency between governing the country and the world and personal moral cultivation.

About the author:

(505-435) Wu (now Pingyi and Jiaxiang in Shandong) was born. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, he was a thinker, a master of Confucianism, one of Confucius' disciples in his later years, an important representative of Confucianism, and a descendant of Yu Xia. His father, Ceng Dian, named Xi, was one of the seventy-two sages, and his son had studied under Confucius.

It is still of great social significance and practical value to advocate Confucianism with filial piety as the core, the political view of "self-cultivation, family harmony and world peace", the self-cultivation view of "introspection and independence" and the filial piety view of "filial piety-oriented". Ceng Zi participated in the compilation of The Analects of Confucius, the writing of Daxue, The Book of Filial Piety, Ten Articles of Ceng Zi and other works.