In the Analects, Confucius presents himself as a “transmitter who invented nothing”.He put the greatest emphasis on the importance of study，and it is the Chinese character for study (or learning) that opens the text. In this respect， he is seen by Chinese people as the Greatest Master.Far from trying to build a systematic theory of life and society or establish a formalism of rites， he wanted his disciples to think deeply for themselves and relentlessly study the outside world，mostly through the old scriptures and by relating the moral problems of the present to past political events (like the Annals) or past expressions of feelings by common people and reflective members of the elite (preserved in the poems of the Book of Odes).