What kind of book is The Analects of Confucius? When was it written and what are its characteristics?

The Analects of Confucius: A collection of recorded essays of China in the Spring and Autumn Period, compiled by Confucius disciples and re-biography disciples. It mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples and reflects Confucius' thoughts more intensively. It is one of the classic works of Confucianism.

Features: The Analects of Confucius is mostly quotations, which timely records what Confucius and his disciples talked about, but all of them are rich in words, and some sentences and chapters are vivid and readable.

This book was originally drafted by Zhong Gong, Zi You and three others, and was re-circulated by several disciples who stayed in Lu to commemorate their teachers and worry about losing their teaching methods. And sentence reading was initiated by Xia Zi.

Extended data:

The Analects of Confucius records Confucius' inner cultivation of mind, which is manifested in the warm weather outside. This chapter records the knowledge and accomplishment of Confucius and shows his face.

The gentleness of Confucius in The Analects of Confucius is somewhat serious, which makes people feel cordial and respectable, but they dare not be presumptuous and contemptuous. Majestic but not rigid, people feel sacred and inviolable, but never fierce and violent.

Respectful and serene, unpretentious and inflexible, lively and natural. This is similar to the meaning of "like a god" and "like a demon" in the previous chapter, which shows that Confucius' appearance, attitude and expression are always so rigid, gentle, gentle and Shu Tai.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Analects of Confucius