It is a pleasure to have friends come from afar, which expresses Confucius’ thought of “being friendly to others and being hospitable.”

From "The Analects of Confucius·Xue Er": "The Master said: Isn't it true to say that one learns and practices from time to time? Isn't it a joy to have friends come from afar? A person who doesn't know but is not stunned is not a gentleman. ? ”

Confucius’ thought is a moral philosophy that takes people as its main object, aims at integrating society, and elucidates the essence of life. It takes "benevolence" as its core and emphasizes "people are valuable". Confucianism, represented by Confucius' thought, has a profound influence on China, East Asia and even the world. At the 21st Century Science Development Conference, scientists who won the Nobel Prize said: "If human beings want to survive and develop in the future, they must go back 2,500 years ago to read Confucius."

"There are friends from far away. "Come here, it's not a joy." This "joy" is the joy of communication and the joy of knowing music; so why is it happy? The Commentary on the Analects of Confucius explains it this way: Confucius said: After a little success in your studies, you can make friends. Wouldn't it be a pleasure to have friends from the same school come from afar to teach you? It turns out that I learned something by myself, and then communicated with friends from far away, inspiring each other and promoting learning, and I felt happy. In Confucius' mind, the importance of making friends for learning can be seen. "Having no friends is not as good as oneself" is a general principle of making friends advocated by Confucius. We should understand this sentence correctly. Literally, "having no friends is not as good as oneself" means not to make friends with people who are not as good as yourself. Many people This sentence may also be misunderstood as a manifestation of Confucius' snobbery based on its literal meaning. However, we can see from the context that what Confucius said about "having no friends is worse than yourself" is actually based on the moral standard of "loyalty." "Analects of Confucius": "The Lord is loyal and trustworthy" means that the Lord is close. "Everyone who is close to you must have someone who is loyal and trustworthy." "There is no friend who is not as loyal as oneself." Therefore, Confucius said. The general principle of making friends is: stay close to loyal people, and don’t make friends with unfaithful and unbelieving people.