1. As for the editor of the Analects of Confucius, according to the Hanshu · Yiwenzhi, the Analects of Confucius was compiled by Confucius disciples after the death of Confucius.
2. As for which disciples participated in this work, Ban Gu did not mention. Zheng Xuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty also wrote notes to The Analects of Confucius. He first proposed that the Analects of Confucius should be written by Zhong Gong, Zi Xia, Zi You, etc.
3. This statement had a great impact, and many people believed it later.
4. However, Liu Zongyuan, a native of the Tang Dynasty, did not think so.
5. He believed that Zengzi was the smallest of Confucius' disciples, and the Analects of Confucius recorded Zengzi's death, indicating that Zixia, Ziyou and others could not edit the Analects of Confucius.
6. The editor of this book should be Zengzi's disciple, who finished it after Zengzi's death.
7. It looks like.
8. Liu Zongyuan's inference is reliable.
9. So people today basically agree with this opinion, but some scholars have slightly added.
10. Mr. Yang Bojun believes that "although the Analects of Confucius was compiled more than 70 years after the death of Confucius, it was written earlier or even not by one person". Therefore, "The Analects of Confucius" is a book compiled in the early Warring States Period by collecting and compiling the relevant writings of Confucius' disciples or re disciples.
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