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Confucius Disciples And Confucian Culture Heritage In It’s Early Years

Posted on:2015-02-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D N ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330431956905Subject:Chinese classical literature
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The Confucian culture is the core of China’s traditional culture, and the "six meridians" are the classical literature of the confucian. In the early years of the dissemination of confucianism, confucius disciples interpret all the thoughts of Confucius. However, judging from historical documents, there are few literature materials about confucius disciples imparting "six meridians". In order to probe into the early development of the process of confucian culture, this paper starts from the activities of confucius disciples who study and practice the "six meridians" instead. Try to understand the regularity of the regulations and give an objective evaluation.In this paper,"Literature" means " Philology ", the activities of confucius disciples who study literature refer to those who study the "six meridians". Confucian Classics emerge in the Han Dynasty, Philology appears in modern times, therefore, this paper elaborates around the "six meridians".Confucianism is rooted in the traditional culture of the Chinese. Confucius polished the Six Classics, gave lectures and developed the Confucius culture. The literature of Confucianism is about the ideal of the king’s ceremony and education. Six Classics started from personal morality and connected it with society’s ethic in order to fulfill the harmony of the whole society. The goal of Confucius’education was to cultivate gentlemen and by education’s help, to achieve the high level of moral and revived the civilization of Zhou dynasty. So based on the arguments offered above, we know that the Six Classics focus on moral, education, etiquette and hierarchical order.From the overall point of view, the Confucius’ literature practice includes several parts, such as teacher’s interpretation, students’ questions about Six Classics’ understanding of sentences and Confucius’students educated other folks by the words of the Six Classics. Based on my research, the Classic of Poetry and book of history reflect many literature practices because they linked daily life of that era closely. But contrast to both of them, the Zhouyi and Chunqiu reflect less in that they were difficult to understand by common people and we have to point out that the Book of Rites and Classic of Music had no contents related to my paper direction, so I only interpret the etiquette system.The Confucius’literature practice of Confucius’students linked the inheritance of Confucian culture closely. It is a shame that history books didn’t focus on the spread of Confucius’ students’ endeavor in the Six Classics. So we hope to find out the relationship between Confucius’ students and the Six Classics, by this way, we can make clear where the Six Classics came from and how did them spread over the whole nation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Confucius disciples, Confucian culture, The Book of Songs, ShangShu, Rite and Music, The Book of Changes, The spring and Autumn Annals
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