Confucius said: I have never been ignorant of tying myself to it. How to understand it will be more reasonable?

Confucius said, "As long as someone comes to see me with ten pieces of dried meat voluntarily, I have never failed to teach him."

From: The Analects of Confucius.

Bundle: Dried meat, also called bacon. This bundle is ten pieces of dried meat. Confucius asked his students to take more than ten pieces of dried meat as tuition fees when they first met. Later, the tuition fees paid by students to teachers were called "bundling".

This sentence of Confucius shows his tireless spirit of being a teacher and his educational thought of "teaching without distinction". It has been said before that since ten bunches of dried meat have to pay tuition fees, it is possible for children from above-average families to enter school, and poor families naturally cannot afford to pay ten bunches of dried meat. Therefore, Confucius's "teaching without class" only stays in words and cannot be implemented in social practice. It is too idealistic and naive to deny Confucius' educational thought of "teaching without class"

Therefore, in fact, Confucius wants to tell everyone that no matter whether they are poor or rich, no matter their status, as long as they can restrain themselves and improve their morality, knowledge and conduct, then as long as you come to consult me, I will know everything and say everything.

The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations from Confucius and his disciples, which was compiled by Confucius' disciples and re-disciples until the early Warring States period. The book * * * consists of 20 chapters and 492 sections. It mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and embodies Confucius' political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles.

This book is one of the Confucian classics, and it is also called "Four Books" with Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean and Mencius. Together with The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu, they are called "Four Books and Five Classics".

The Analects of Confucius has three versions in ancient times, namely, ancient theory, Lu theory and Qi theory. The Analects of Confucius, which is popular now, is a version formed by collating Lu Lun and Gu Lun.

The Analects of Confucius is a Confucian classic and a collection of recorded essays focusing on memorizing words. As early as the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Confucius set up an altar to give lectures, its main contents were initially established; After the death of Confucius, his disciples and re-disciples passed on his remarks from generation to generation, and gradually recorded the words and deeds of these oral quotations, so it was called "On"; The Analects of Confucius mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, so it is called "language".

In the Qing Dynasty, Zhao Yi explained: "The speaker, the sage's language, the commentator, and the Confucian discussion." In fact, "Shang" means compiling. The Analects of Confucius refers to recording the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples and compiling them into books. The Analects of Confucius consists of 20 articles and 492 chapters, of which 444 chapters record what Confucius and his disciples talked about in time, and 48 chapters record what Confucius and his disciples talked about each other.

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The Analects of Confucius-Baidu Encyclopedia