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Why "Discipleship Rules" is harmful, pseudo-national studies "mutilated" how many young people?

In current China there are a lot of books handed down from ancient times, most of which are considered to be the classics of national education, but there is such a book, although handed down, but now a lot of literary masters rated a bit? But there is a book that has been passed down, but is now rated by many literary masters as a pseudo-national science. The name of this book is called "Disciple's Rules". I believe that this book in many people's childhood have read, although now there are still a lot of people in the read, but more people are rejected this children's books, because the content of this book can not be counted as a classic, and some of the contents of the youth is still a kind of misdirection.

Rumor has it that "The Rules of Discipleship" was written by a Qing Dynasty scholar who became a teacher after failing the imperial examinations. During his long teaching career, he often had feelings about children's education, so he wrote the "Training of Mengwen", which was later changed to "Disciple's Rules". We all know that the book "Disciple's Rules" is mainly for children to read, but the content of this book is nothing that can enlighten children's minds, nor how profound the truth, compared with the real classics there is still a big gap.

"Disciple's Rules" not only can not be called the classic national education, but also has a certain misinterpretation of the national education. Some people who are not very deep in culture will think that "Disciple's Rules" belongs to the scope of Confucianism, although it has a little bit of the content of "The Analects of Confucius",but it does not belong to Confucianism, and "Disciple's Rules" only involves the skin of Confucianism, and even in the distortion of Confucianism. The content of Disciple's Rules has a lot of requirements for people's behavior, and the vast majority of them are for the general form of the requirements, while there are very few requirements for the ideology.

There is a line in the Book of Disciples?

Parents call, respond not to delay. meaning, as long as your parents call you, then you should immediately go to your parents, and there is also a little bit of the meaning of obeying your parents. In many Confucian writings, it is considered to be unfilial to obey one's parents. In the Disciple's Rules, the view of life is that one should obey one's parents, which is very inconsistent with the reality nowadays, and in Xunzi, it is said that one's behavior should be in accordance with morality and righteousness. So it is said that when we study literature, we should remove the dross.