"Living with good people is like entering a house of orchids, which will fragrant over time; living with evil people is like entering a house of abalones, which will make oneself smell bad for a long time." means: Get along with kind people. After a long time, it's like being in an orchid shed for a long time. After a long time, you can no longer smell the fragrance of the flowers, because it has been assimilated. Living with unkind people for a long time is like staying in the fish market for a long time. After a long time, you can no longer smell the fragrance. When fish smells bad, it's also because of assimilation.

This is a sentence in "Six Books of Confucius' Family". This assertion mainly shows that things are interconnected, so when looking at problems, they need to be combined and summarized to draw conclusions.

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The authenticity and documentary value of "Confucius' Family Sayings" are increasingly valued by the academic community. Song Confucianism attached great importance to the study of mind and nature, and attached great importance to "The Analects", "Mencius", "Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean". However, compared with these "Four Books", "Confucius' Jiayu" is much higher in both scale and content. .

Determined by the book characteristics of "Jiayu", this book is more valuable for the comprehensive study and accurate grasp of early Confucianism. In this sense, this book can be regarded as the "first book of Confucianism" status.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Confucius Family Language (written by Confucius disciples)