Title: Series of Chinese Classics· the Great Learning, the Doctrine of Mean, Filial Piety

Author：Zeng Zi

Publishing House: Shandong Pictorial Publishing House

Publishing Date: 2012.10

Price: 23.00

ISBN: 978-7-5474-0500-0

Pages:192

Size: thirty-two mo

Content in Briefs:

   The Great Learning summarizes ethical and political thoughts of confucianism in the Pre-Qin period and explicates systematically principles and methods on cultivating of confucianism. It is a concise and systematic theory of administering a country.

   The Doctrine of Meanis originally a passage in the book the Stories of Dai De and his nephews.The book is written by Zi Si who is descended from Confucious and corrected and collected by scholars of Qin dynasty. Scholars of Song dynasty thought highly of The Doctrine of Mean and there are more than 100 pieces exploring a middle course. Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao who lived in the period of the Northern Song dynasty strongly recommended it.

   Filial Piety is one of the important ethics of Chinese ancient confucianism. It is said that the book is made by Confucious, but some people of the Southern Song dynasty suspected that it is collected by descendants of Confucious.