The purpose of the university is to carry forward the aboveboard moral character, make people abandon the old and establish the new, and make people reach the most perfect state.

The way of university is such a road: starting from Mingde Yu, becoming a new person, and finally being complete.

"Mingde" is a clear moral character, a natural moral character. "Ming Ming De" means knowing clearly what human nature is and how to be a man.

"Xinmin" includes two meanings: rehabilitation and Xinmin. Self-improvement means renewing morality, constantly changing yourself, perfecting yourself, and being a person with innovative spirit and ability; Xinmin is to turn the people into customs, make a living for the people, and let the people set up new ideas and live a new life.

"Supreme goodness" is the highest goodness, and the highest goodness is no goodness. No goodness means deliberately being good for the sake of goodness, but having a real good without an external form of goodness.

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The purpose of "university" is to carry forward noble virtues, care for people and reach the highest state of perfection.

"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. After being highly praised by Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhu in the Southern Song Dynasty wrote "University Chapters and Sentences", which was finally called "Four Books" together with The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius.

After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, "Da Xue" became the official textbook of the school and the required reading of the imperial examination, which had a great influence on the ancient education in China.

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.

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.

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Liji University-Baidu Encyclopedia