Illuminating Chinese Classics

In this episode, we introduce what is perhaps the most influential ancient Chinese text: The Analects of Confucius (论语者). In 20 articles (二十篇), it details what the dicsiples of Confucius (群弟子) recorded of his ideas (记善言). The三字经 was written by the Song Dynasty (宋朝) scholar Wang Yinglin (王应麟). This 1,134 character text was one of the first textbooks used by students, and provided lessons on education, morality and ethics, science, literature, and history.