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The Meaning and Influence of the Classics of Monasticism

Mongolics refers to the ancient enlightenment education. With its rich knowledge, catchy language form, and educational methods, the ancient teaching materials have been passed down for a long time and y penetrated into the hearts of the people. Compared with the Confucian classics, monastic reading materials reflect the spirit of traditional Chinese culture in a more direct, concrete and sincere way. Revisiting the ancient monastic classics is very beneficial for today's young people to accumulate culture, enlighten their wisdom, standardize their speech and behavior, and cultivate a good personality.

Mongolian classics refer to the cultural writings of ancient and modern China that provide children with literacy, humanistic culture and life enlightenment education. The main literary form of the classics is poetry, and their cultural contents mainly include benevolence and filial piety, learning and enterprising, world composition, historical changes, philosophy of life, life wisdom and other aspects. Their cultural values are rich and varied. Some misinterpretations have appeared in the process of traditional culture transmission, and it is necessary to re-analyze the core concepts of Confucianism such as "courtesy, filial piety and fraternal duty, benevolence and righteousness, honesty, and mediocrity" and some of the texts and sentences in the classics of the Monk's school.