1. Three cardinal principles: be clear about virtue, be close to the people, and stop at perfection.

2. Eight objectives: to be realistic, to be knowledgeable, to be sincere, to be upright, to cultivate one's morality, to keep the family in order, to govern the country and to level the world. "University" put forward "three programs" and "eight items", emphasizing that self-cultivation is the premise of governing people, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to keep the family in order, govern the country and level the world, and explain the internal relationship between governing the country and level the world and personal moral cultivation.

3. according to the relationship between "three cardinal guides" and "eight orders", six syndromes are summarized. Six syndromes: stop, settle, be calm, be safe, worry and gain.

literary significance

A kind of life schema is constructed, and its internal logical way is: stop at the best, be clear about virtue and be close to the people as two sub-categories, and the two sub-categories have eight virtues, namely, unification, ambition, honesty, integrity, repair, harmony, governance and equality, with self-cultivation as the core and progressive in order, with the first few virtues focusing on being clear about virtue and the last few.

around the moral subject-people, the moral purpose will be developed step by step, and the inward push is to show virtue by virtue, while the outward push is to be neat, rule and equal to the people. Personality and ambition are the stage of spiritual cognition, honesty and integrity are the stage of spiritual internalization, and qi, governance and peace are the stage of life externalization, with self-cultivation as the central link, integration of internal and external, integration of knowledge and practice, and clear morality and closeness to the people until perfection.