【正确答案】As a great thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism during the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius was a sage to the ancient Chinese people. His words and life stories were recorded by his disciples and their students in The Analects. As an enduring classic of Chinese culture, The Analects has influenced all thinkers, writers and politicians in the thousand years' Chinese history after Confucius. No scholar could truly understand this long-standing culture or the inner world of the ancient Chinese without this book.