This sentence is from "University" in the Book of Rites. University was originally the forty-second article of the Book of Rites. In the Song Dynasty, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi brothers took it out of the Book of Rites and compiled chapters. Zhu Xi named The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius as the Four Books, and from then on, The Great Learning became a Confucian classic. As for the author of Da Xue, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi thought it was "Kong's last words".

"The way of a university is to be clear in virtue, to be close to the people and to stop at perfection" comes from the first chapter of "University"-Classic.

(Zhu Xi rearranged The Great Learning, which was divided into one chapter of "Jing" and ten chapters of "Biography". It is believed that "the words of Confucius are covered by a chapter, and Ceng Zi describes it; Its ten chapters, then Ceng Zi's meaning and the master remember it. " That is to say, "Jing" is Confucius' words, which Ceng Zi recorded; "Biography" is Ceng Zi's explanation of "Jing", which was recorded by students in Ceng Zi. )