Authorship
This document probably dates to about 400 BCE. It is not known who actually wrote the document. It is attributed to a conversation between Confucius and a disciple named Zeng Zi (曾子). A 12th-century author named He Yin claimed: "The Classic of Filial Piety was not made by Zang-Dze himself. When he retired from his conversation (or conversations) with Kung-ne on the subject of Filial Piety, be repeated to the disciples of his own school what (the master) had said, and they classified the sayings, and formed the treatise."
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