Note proposes the Analects as a pedagogical tool in pre-Qin education, suggesting a new interpretation of its purpose.
This note proposes that the Analects (Lunyu) originated not as a philosophical record of Confucius's sayings but as a pedagogical text within the pre-Qin Zongbo (宗伯) ritual-education tradition, designed to transmit Elegant Classical Chinese (雅言) and ancient ritual (古礼) knowledge. An author-proposed hypothesis, not yet part of mainstream scholarly consensus.
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Zhengyao Chen (2026) studied this question.
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