Verifying and Explaining on ZiSi’s Received Education
Abstract: Academic circles believed that ZiSi received his education from ZengZi or ZiYou, but they couldn’t confirm it and their standpoints weren’t concordant. We get a point that different with theirs, by using some historical data, such as ShangHai museum’s Confucius’s Thesis on Odes and Analects. We believe that ZiSi probably studied from Confucius’ chief disciples, but he didn’t follow ZengZi or ZiYou, he succeeded Confucius’s thought of later years.
Keywords: ZiSi; Received education; Confucius’s Thesis on Odes; The pedigree to the school of benevolence