1, University and the Doctrine of the Mean comes from The Book of Rites. The University was originally an article in The Book of Rites, and its author is unknown. In Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianists Cheng and Zhu attached great importance to it and made it a famous work (once attended by Confucius disciples) to be promoted specially. It is called the Four Books together with The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius, and is regarded as the most basic classic of Confucianism together with the Five Classics.

2. The Doctrine of the Mean is a monograph of moral philosophy about the realm of life cultivation in ancient China, and it is one of the Confucian classics. Originally the thirty-first chapter of the Book of Rites, it was said that it was written by Zi Si during the Warring States Period. Its content affirms that "the golden mean" is the highest standard of moral behavior, regards "sincerity" as the noumenon of the world, thinks that "sincerity" reaches the highest realm of life, and puts forward the learning process and cognitive methods of "erudition, questioning, deliberation, discernment and perseverance".

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