The experience of the introduction of the four books

The Four Books is an important classic of Confucianism and a treasure of Chinese culture.

The four books refer to The University, The Mean, The Analects, and Mencius, which are among the traditional Chinese classics. These books are hailed as representative works of ancient Chinese Confucianism and are of great value for the study of Chinese culture and philosophy.

The purpose of the four books is to explain how human beings should live, govern society, and cultivate self-cultivation. They put forward many ideas on human ethics, politics, education, ethics, etc., and also had a profound impact on the development of the political and social system in Chinese history.

In addition, the Four Books are also considered to be important readings for cultivating people's humanistic qualities and moral values, and are widely used in traditional Chinese education and culture. Therefore, the four books are of irreplaceable value for understanding traditional Chinese thought, culture and values, as well as for the development and changes of contemporary Chinese society.

Four books, five classics and six arts

The four books refer to the University, the Mean, the Analects, and Mencius; The Five Classics refer to the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes, and the Spring and Autumn Period, referred to as "Poems, Books, Rites, Changes, Spring and Autumn", in fact, there should have been six classics, and a "Book of Music", collectively known as "Poems, Books, Rites, Music, Yi, Spring and Autumn", but later died in the war at the end of Qin, and only the Five Classics remained.

There are two versions of the Six Arts. One is that the ancient Chinese Confucian scholars required students to master the six basic talents, including etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics. Etiquette is etiquette, music is **, shooting is shooting and riding technology, royal is the technology of driving a carriage, the book is calligraphy, and the number is counting.

There is also a saying that interprets the six arts as the six classics, namely the Book of Changes, the Book of Songs, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, the Book of Music, and the Spring and Autumn Period.

The four books are: "The University", "The Mean", "The Analects", and "Mencius".

The Four Books are the collective names of the Analects, Mencius, the University, and the Mean, also known as the Four Books, which are the core scriptures studied by Confucian students throughout the ages. Zhu Xi, a physicist in the Southern Song Dynasty, extracted two chapters and sentences from the Book of Rites, "The Mean" and "University", annotated them, and combined them with the Analects and Mencius into the "Four Books".

Four Books

The Four Books is an important classic of Confucianism and a treasure of Chinese culture. The Analects was a must-read book for women and children in the Han Dynasty, and the Four Books has been a must-read book for Chinese since the Song Dynasty, as the basic belief and belief of people at that time, it became their way to settle down and establish their lives, and it was a family tradition of recitation, even for laborers in the countryside who were not very literate or even illiterate, but also through word of mouth.

The Four Books contain the core content of Confucianism, which is a concentrated embodiment of Confucian epistemology and methods, records the thoughts and wisdom of Confucian sages, and also reflects the trajectory of the formation of early Confucianism. It has had a profound impact on the history of Chinese thought. In the 21st century, it still does not lose its profound educational significance and enlightening value, and can be called the essence of national culture with a long history.

The above content reference:Encyclopedia – Four Books