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It is significant because it expresses many themes of Chinese philosophy and political thinking, and has therefore been extremely influential both in classical and modern Chinese thought. Doctrine of the Mean Another chapter in Book of Rites, attributed to Confucius's grandson Zisi. The purpose of this small, 33-chapter book is to demonstrate ...
A Concise Companion to Confucius. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 268– 285. ISBN 9781118783832. Rosemont, Henry Jr.; Roger T. Ames (2009). The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence: a Philosophical Translation of the Xiaojing. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ISBN 978-0824833480.
The scholar Zhuang Cunyu (1718–1788), a secretary to the Qianlong emperor, was the pioneer of the Changzhou Current Script Texts school revival.Dissatisfied with his apolitical colleagues in the Han learning movement, Zhuang published studies based on the Current Script Texts aiming to interpret the writings of Confucius' as prescriptions on government, especially with regard to the ...
The Ten Wings (十翼 shí yì) is a collection of commentaries (傳 zhuan) to the classical Chinese Book of Changes (易經 Yì jīng) traditionally ascribed to Confucius, though they were likely composed by later scholars. [1]
The book is based on the ancient teaching of the Chinese philosopher Confucius that emphasises the basic requisites for being a good person and guidelines for living in harmony with others. [1] Like the San Zi Jing (another classic Chinese children's text), it is written in three-character verses.
The Classic of Music (Chinese: 樂經) was a Confucian classic text lost by the time of the Han dynasty.It is sometimes referred to as the "Sixth Classic" (for example, by Sima Qian [1]) and is thought to have been important in the traditional interpretations of the Classic of Poetry.
The sociologist of Chinese religion C.K. Yang, for instance, wrote that Weber's interpretation is "largely the result of viewing the religious situation in Chinese culture from the view of the Christian world, where religion has a formal organizational system and has occupied a prominent structural position in the organizational scheme of ...
Along with the descendants of the other Four Sages (Confucius, Mencius, Zengzi, and Yan Hui), the descendants of Confucius still determine part of their children's given names using this generation poem given to them by the Ming dynasty Jianwen Emperor and extended by later emperors: [45]