Briefly describe the language features of The Analects of Confucius in the past 600 years.

First, the simplicity and beauty of language.

Remember words concisely and describe them concisely.

This edition of The Analects of Confucius (5 12) consists of 20 chapters with more than 10,000 words, and the most recorded chapter, Ji's Attack on Zhuan Xu, is only 279 words. At least "learn first" and so on only used four words. In a few words, Confucius and his disciples expressed their methods and attitudes towards learning, life and life, as well as their views and styles towards life and career. When describing his happy mood of being content with poverty, when describing that he is a teacher with methods, experience, responsibility and ability to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, when describing that he is heartbroken or deeply loves his disciples, and when describing his benevolent gentleman who opposes war, the language is very concise. For example, "Confucius said: save clothes and eat less, bend your arms and pillow it, and have fun." Unjust wealth is like a cloud to me.

Second, the rhetoric beauty of language

Comprehensive application of rhetorical devices such as parallelism, rhetorical questions, metaphor, contrast, duality and truth. , make the sentence rich and colorful, diverse expressions, harmonious phonology and distinct rhythm, so the narrative, writing and reasoning are lively and have achieved good results.

Thirdly, the musical beauty of language.

The language of The Analects of Confucius can give people a sense of musical beauty, which is not only due to the simplicity of the language, but also due to the richness and diversity of sentence patterns, the rhythm and rhyme of sentences, the repetition of words in sentences, the flexibility of rhetoric and the clever use of function words. The beautiful rhythm of The Analects is catchy to read. The neat sentence pattern of beauty is recited with relish; The repetition of beautiful sentences is hard to find.

Fourth, the beauty of "rational interest" in language. Its beauty of "reason and interest" is condensed into a philosophical motto and countless idioms.