Classic Writings of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture

Classic Writings of Chinese Excellent Traditional CultureWritings include: The I Ching, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, and the Records of the Grand Historian.

1, "I Ching": initially used to forecast the weather, but its influence throughout China's philosophy, religion, politics, economy, medicine, astronomy, arithmetic, literature, music, art, military and martial arts, etc., is an all-encompassing masterpiece.

The I Ching is regarded as the source of the great way, the first of all the sutras, and is the general program of traditional Chinese culture. It is the outstanding representative of Chinese culture; it is vast and subtle, and encompasses everything, and is the source of Chinese civilization, and its content involves many fields, such as philosophy, politics, life, literature, art, science, and so on, and it is the classical text of Confucianism, Taoism, and other **** with each family.

2, "Laozi": is the essence of the philosophical thinking of Taoism, he emphasized "not learning but knowing", stressed the importance of practice and reflection, he advocated the use of practical methods of learning, thinking about the knowledge, through learning can make our thinking more profound, but also can get a lot of wisdom.

Lao Zi told us not to think of using wisdom to solve problems, but to come more from practice, "less selfishness", "nothing but nothing" these are the essence of Lao Zi's thinking, and he also warned us: to do things to be good at thinking.

3, "Confucius": is the founder of Confucianism, the core of his thought is "benevolence" and "propriety".

The idea of "benevolence" is that "those who are benevolent love others", and this idea is to ask the ruling class to be sensitive to the people's feelings and oppose tyranny. According to Confucius, in order to realize "loving others", one must also follow the way of "loyalty and forgiveness", which is the requirement of "do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you".

The idea of "propriety" is to "restrain oneself and return to propriety," which means to restrain oneself and make oneself conform to the requirements of "propriety," which Confucius pursued. Confucius pursued the "ritual" is the Western Zhou hierarchical name system, Confucius also further put forward the idea of "correct name", is to correct the hierarchical order, to achieve the order of nobility and inferiority. This reflects the conservative side of his political thinking.

4, "Mencius": is a classic work of Confucianism, the middle of the Warring States period, Mencius and his disciples, Wan Zhang, Gongsun Chou and other writers. The earliest in Zhao Qi "Mengzi inscription": "this book, the work of Mencius, so the total is called "Mengzi".

The practical significance of Mencius' idea of benevolent government is: to take the people as the basis, to maintain the people-oriented consciousness, to speed up the pace of building a harmonious society; to strengthen the construction of the party's integrity, to promote the development of socialism; to establish good interpersonal relations, and to create a harmonious humanistic and spiritual atmosphere.

5, "Shiji": is one of the twenty-four histories, initially known as "Taishigongshu" or "Taishigongji", "Tai Shi Ji", is a chronological history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, and it is the first chronological general history of Chinese history.

The Historical Records recounts the history of China from the ancient times to that time, in which the part of the "book" is more difficult to understand, but it is the part of Sima Qian's historical thought that he concentrated on, and the essence of the whole book lies in the "Shijia" and the "Lianzhuan". The essence of the book lies in the "Shijia" and "Liezhuan", Sima Qian depicted for us many personalized and emotional images of historical figures, and he poured his own emotions into the historical figures.