Research Of The Confucian Thought Of Ren In The Chu Slips

Guodian Chu Slips published by Culture Relics Publishing House in May 1998 includes ten pieces of Confucian Literature. It is the most important theoretic material before Middle Warring States. In early 2001, bamboo scrips of chu state was publicized. This book contains more materials part of which can be compared with Guodian Chu Slips. It invokes much attention in academia.As the most important part of Confucian Ethics, the Confucian Thought of Ren lasted for three hundred years throughout the Pre-Qin period. Besides of The Analects, Mencius, Xuncius, Ritual Studies was handed down from ancient times. Modern Research of Pre-Qin Confucianism face the scarcity of historical materials. The publish of Chu Slips make up the shortage of research material and open a broad field for research of the Confucian Thought of Ren.Chu Slips include many raw Confucian material of Zisi school, record plenty of Thought of kindheartedness and the Conception of humanity Music. The contents are abundant. It mentioned that kindheartedness is the base of Confucian Ethics, and the unification of the humanity Music and the kindheartedness achieves perfect of moral. It is of intense experimentalism. Compare the narrate of the Confucian Thought of Ren between Chu Slips and other Confucian historical material, you will find out the trace of the development of the Confucian Thought of Ren throughout the three hundred years of the Pre-Qin period. The comparison demonstrated the importance of the Chu Slips in Confucianism.