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Confucius judged a good ruler by his possession of de ('virtue'): a sort of moral force that allows those in power to rule and gain the loyalty of others without the need for physical coercion (§2.1). Confucius said that one of the most important ways that a ruler cultivates his sense of de is through a devotion to the correct practices of li.
The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry (詩; Shī), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC.
The title of the work Zi bu yu refers to the passage of the Analects of Confucius [4] that states, "The topics the Master did not speak of were prodigies, force, disorder and gods". [5] His reference to the master was criticised as a 'heretical' use of Confucian texts. [6]
It includes examples of early Chinese prose. Book of Rites Describes ancient rites, social forms and court ceremonies. The version studied today is a re-worked version compiled by scholars in the third century BC rather than the original text, which is said to have been edited by Confucius himself. I Ching (Book of Changes)
The Thirteen Classics (traditional Chinese: 十三經; simplified Chinese: 十三经; pinyin: Shísān Jīng) is a term for the group of thirteen classics of Confucian tradition that became the basis for the Imperial Examinations during the Song dynasty and have shaped much of East Asian culture and thought. [1]
The Four Books are: the Analects of Confucius, a book of pithy sayings attributed to Confucius and recorded by his disciples; the Mencius, a collection of political dialogues; the Doctrine of the Mean, a book that teaches the path to Confucian virtue; and; the Great Learning, a book about education, self-cultivation and the Dao.
The Classic of Poetry serves as one of the current Confucian classics and is a book on poetry that contains a diversified variety of poems as well as poems meant for folk songs. Confucius is traditionally ascribed with compiling these classics within his school. [53] In the Analects, Confucius described the importance of poetry in the ...
Title page of The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars from an early Ming dynasty printed edition Pages from a Chinese-English translated version of the book. Some of the stories in The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars were taken from other texts such as the Xiaozi Zhuan (孝子傳), Yiwen Leiju, Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era and In Search of the Supernatural.