Self-Cultivation
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers who hope to cultivate self-reflection and improve daily words and actions
- Readers interested in traditional self-cultivation ideas who want an introduction
- People who need short reading material for fragmented time
- Educators looking for reference material on character education
Not a good fit for
- Researchers expecting systematic academic textual criticism or detailed annotations
- Readers hoping for concrete success-methodology advice
- Those who prefer long stories or strong plots
Reading tips
- Read one short section a day, then write one sentence recording a behavioral change you can practice that day.
- Copy "choose good and follow it, study widely in culture, restrain with propriety" onto a sticky note and post it at your desk or bedside for reference.
- Review once a week: on which occasions this week did you restrain yourself with propriety, and where do you still need improvement?
- Read together with friends and exchange your understanding and practice around one behavioral topic each time.
About the publisher
Bashu Publishing House is a publisher centered on collating and publishing classical Chinese cultural texts, with its main publishing areas covering classical literature, Eastern philosophy, ancient poetry, and educational classics. Its library currently holds 1,075 titles, including representative works such as Dream of the Red Chamber, the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, Renjian Cihua, and Out to the Frontier, involving authors such as Cao Xueqin, Wang Xizhi, Wang Guowei, Wang Changling, Liu Xie, and Yan Yu. These reflect the publisher's focus on literary classics, poetry criticism, and philosophical readings. Its publishing character lies in working around ancient texts and canonical works, with attention to textual collation and presentation. Public information on its more detailed publishing background and series plans is limited; this introduction is based only on the library's book information.
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- 修身第六十一
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Anonymous is not a real personal name but a general Chinese designation for authors whose names are unknown, lost, or unsigned. Neither nationality nor dates of birth and death can be verified, and available public information is limited, so the works attributed to this name are the only basis for description. The collection holds 2,078 works under Anonymous, spanning medicine, classics, historical readings, ancient poetry, classical literature, and philosophy. Representative works include The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Lingshu, Mencius, The Book of Documents, Nineteen Old Poems, Complete Song Ci, and The Peacock Flies Southeast. Most of these works took shape through long transmission and editing, emerging either from collective folk creation or from authors whose names were lost over time. In ancient China, the Book of Songs, the Great Learning, and many popular storybooks and plays were signed Anonymous because their authors could not be traced. Anonymous works cross the classics, histories, philosophical writings, medical texts, and poetry; their subjects are broad, and their styles vary from archaic simplicity to clear naturalness, making them important and influential sources for understanding ancient Chinese thought, medicine, and literature.
