What is the practical significance of reading ancient classics?

Classic is the cultural code of a nation, a work with fundamental and authoritative ideological value formed in the process of the formation and development of a national culture, and a work that has a far-reaching and significant impact on the cultural development trend of a nation. Confucian classics are the root and soul of our traditional culture in China.

Confucian "six arts", namely Confucian classics, is not only a knowledge system, but also a value system. Confucian classics are the main carrier of China's traditional culture and the main content of traditional Chinese studies, and the spiritual thought contained in them is the root and soul of our traditional culture.

Today, we should not only take the study of "Six Arts" as the research material of literature, history and philosophy, but also dig out the spiritual elements that are valuable to our modern ethical and moral construction. Because "Six Arts" contains rich and systematic ethical and cultural spirit, it is a concentrated expression of China's traditional values and has played an important role in educating the society.

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Traditional societies, such as Han and Tang Dynasties, attached importance to the Five Classics, mainly in political aspects, namely, political system and political philosophy, while Song Dynasty attached importance to the Four Books and considered education and spiritual cultivation. Mind cultivation is a personal matter, and personal affairs focus on mind. I think the "Four Books" are still the most important to modern society.

The "four books" are relatively simple and straightforward at once. Focusing on the "Four Books", of course, there are other things, such as things that are more convenient to read, such as Zhu Jin and Wang Yangming's Lu of Ming Confucianism.