Vernacular interpretation: there must be something worth learning from other people's words and deeds. Choose others to study hard, see other people's shortcomings, reflect on whether you have the same shortcomings, and if so, correct them.
Introduction to the article:
The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations from Confucius and his disciples in the Spring and Autumn Period. Compiled by Confucius' disciples and re-disciples, the book was written in the early Warring States period. The book consists of 20 chapters and 492 sections, with quotations as the main part, supplemented by narration, which mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and embodies Confucius' political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles.
This book is one of the Confucian classics, and it is also called "Four Books" with Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean and Mencius. Together with The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu, they are called "Four Books and Five Classics".
Introduction to Extended Data Content:
The Analects of Confucius is one of the classic works of Confucianism and a collection of recorded essays, which mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples in the form of quotations and dialogues, and embodies Confucius' political, aesthetic, moral and utilitarian values.
The Analects of Confucius covers politics, education, literature, philosophy and ways of living. As early as the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Confucius set up an altar to give lectures, its main contents were initially established.
After the death of Confucius, his disciples and re-disciples passed on his remarks from generation to generation, and gradually recorded the words and deeds of these oral quotations, so it was called "On"; The Analects of Confucius mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, so it is called "language".
In the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Yi explained: "The speaker, the sage's language, the commentator, and the Confucian discussion." In fact, "Shang" means compiling. The Analects of Confucius refers to recording the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples and compiling them into books.
The Analects of Confucius consists of 20 articles and 492 chapters, of which 444 chapters record what Confucius and his disciples talked about in time, and 48 chapters record what Confucius and his disciples talked about each other.
As a Confucian classic, The Analects is profound and all-encompassing, and its thoughts mainly include three independent and closely dependent categories: ethics-benevolence, social and political category-courtesy, and cognitive methodology category-the mean.
Benevolence, first of all, is the true state in people's hearts. The final compromise must be kindness, and this true and kind state is "benevolence".
Confucius established the category of benevolence, and then expounded that courtesy is a reasonable social relationship and a norm to treat people and things, and then expounded the methodological principle of the "golden mean" system. "Benevolence" is the ideological core of The Analects.
About the author:
Confucius (55 BC/kloc-0 BC/-479 BC), that is, Lu (now Nishan Town, Qufu City, Jining City, Shandong Province), was a famous thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism in the late Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. His thoughts had a far-reaching impact on China and the world.
Confucius led some disciples around the world for fourteen years and revised the Six Classics in his later years. Confucius initiated the atmosphere of private lectures. According to legend, he has 3000 disciples and 72 disciples of the wise.
After the death of Confucius, his disciples and their re-transmitted disciples recorded the words and deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples and compiled the Confucian classic The Analects. What he did was recorded in Historical Records Confucius Family.