Four Books and Five Classics or Four Books and Six Classics, what are Four Books and Five Classics?

The four books refer to the University, the Mean, the Analects, and Mencius.

The Five Classics refer to the Book of Songs, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes, and the Spring and Autumn Period.

Due to the abbreviation of the text, the Spring and Autumn Period is usually published together with the Zuo Chuan, the Ram Biography, and the Gu Liang Biography, which explain the Spring and Autumn Period.

The Four Books and the Five Classics, the combined name of the Four Books and the Five Classics, are classic books of Chinese Confucianism.

The Four Books, also known as the Four Books, refer to the Analects, Mencius, the University, and the Mean.

The Five Classics are the name of the five Confucian classics, namely the Book of Songs ("Poems"), the Book of Rites ("Shu"), the Book of Rites ("Li"), the Zhou Yi ("Yi"), and the "Spring and Autumn Period".

Pentateuch. During the Warring States Period, "Poems", "Books", "Rites", "Music", "Yi", and "Spring and Autumn" were used as the "Six Classics to prepare for the uproar". The Book of Music in the Six Classics of Poetry, Book, Rites, Music, Yi, and Spring and Autumn died out very early, and there is no record of this book in the Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles.

The other five works are called the Pentateuch. In the Tang Dynasty, the "Rites" in the Five Classics was changed to the "Book of Rites", which is still used today.

Four Books. Zhu Xi, a famous physicist in the Southern Song Dynasty, took the two articles "Zhongyong" and "University" in the "Book of Rites" into a separate book, and combined it with the "Analects" which recorded the words and deeds of Confucius and "Mencius" which recorded the words and deeds of Meng Ke to imitate the "Four Books" of hail. Because they are said to be from the four representative figures of early Confucianism, Zeng Shen, Zisi, Confucius, and Mencius, they are called the "Book of the Four Sons" (also known as the "Four Sons"), or simply the "Four Books". In the distant year of Guangzong Shaoxi of the Southern Song Dynasty (1190), Zhu Xi gathered the four books together in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province and published them as a set of scriptures and periodicals.

Four books: namely the Analects, the University, the Mean, and Mencius. The Five Classics: namely "Zhou Yi", "Shangshu", "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites", and "Spring and Autumn". Refers to Confucian classics in general.

The Four Books and Five Classics, which refers to the combined name of the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics", are the core books and classics studied by Confucian students in the past dynasties, and occupy a very important position in many literary works of Chinese traditional culture.

As long as we talk about traditional Chinese culture, we must mention the "Four Books and Five Classics". The "Four Books and Five Classics" is an important part of traditional Chinese culture, the core carrier of Confucianism, and a treasure book in ancient books of Chinese history and culture. The Confucian classics "Four Books and Five Classics" contain extremely extensive and profound contents, and it has a very high status in the history of world culture and thought.

The "Four Books and Five Classics" record in detail the political, military, diplomatic, cultural and other historical materials of the most active period in the history of the development of Chinese ideology and culture, as well as the important philosophical thoughts of Confucius and Mencius that have influenced Chinese culture for thousands of years. In the past dynasties, the proposition of the examination paper must come from the "Four Books and Five Classics", which shows its importance to the way of serving officials and politics and the way of dealing with the world.

The Four Books and the Five Classics have had an immeasurable impact on social norms, interpersonal communication, and social culture. To this day, the contents and philosophical ideas contained in the "Four Books and Five Classics" still have positive significance and strong reference value for our modern people.

The Four Books and the Five Classics are the collective names of the Four Books and the Five Classics, which generally refer to the Confucian classics.

The Four Books refer to the University, the Mean, the Analects, and Mencius.

Five Classics: refers to the five books of "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites", "Book of Rites", "Zhou Yi", and "Spring and Autumn".

The Book of Rites usually includes three rites, namely "Rites", "Weekly Rites", and "Rites"; Because the text of "Spring and Autumn" is too brief, it is usually published separately with "Zuo Chuan", "Ram Chuan", and "Gu Liang Chuan", which explain "Spring and Autumn".

The name of the Four Books began in the Song Dynasty, and the name of the Five Classics began in Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Extended information: For hundreds of years, the "Four Books" have been widely circulated in China, and many of these sentences have become popular aphorisms and aphorisms. Among them, "Analects" and "Mencius" are respectively a collection of speeches by Confucius, Mencius and his students, and "University" and "Zhongyong" are two articles in the "Book of Rites", which are respectively from the four representative figures of early Confucianism: Confucius, Mencius, Zeng Shen, and Zisi, so they are called "Four Books", or "Four Books" for short.

The first time they were compiled together was Zhu Xi, a famous scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Five Classics are the collective name of the five ancient classic books on which Confucianism is the basis for research, and they are all said to have been written or modified by Confucius, one of the founders of Confucianism.

Qin Shi Huang "burned books and pit Confucianism", it is said that after Qin Huo's debate touched a torch, the "Book of Music" has been lost, and the Eastern Han Dynasty added "Analects" and "Filial Piety" on this basis, a total of seven classics; In the Tang Dynasty, "Zhou Li", "Rites", "Spring and Autumn Ram Biography", "Spring and Autumn Valley Liang Biography", "Erya", a total of 12 classics; In the Song Dynasty, "Mencius" was added, and later there was a Song carving "Commentary on the Thirteen Classics" handed down.

The "Thirteen Classics" are the basic works of Confucian culture, as far as the traditional concepts are concerned, "Yi", "Poems", "Books", "Rites", and "Spring and Autumn" are called "classics", "Zuo Chuan", "Ram Chuan", and "Gu Liang Chuan" belong to the "Biography" of the "Spring and Autumn Classics", "The Book of Rites", "The Book of Filial Piety", "Analects", and "Mencius" are all "records", and "Erya" is the exegetical work of the Han Dynasty scripture teachers. The later Five Classics refer to: "Book of Changes", "Book of Songs", "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites", and "Zuo Chuan".

Four Books and Five Classics.

The four books refer to the Analects, Mencius, the University, and the Mean; The Five Classics refer to the "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites", "Book of Rites", "Zhou Yi" and "Spring and Autumn", referred to as "Poems, Books, Rites, Yi, Spring and Autumn", before that, there was also a "Book of Music", collectively known as "Poems, Books, Rites, Music, Yi, Spring and Autumn", these six books are also called "Six Classics", of which the "Book of Music" later died, and only the Five Classics remained. The Four Books and Five Classics is the basic bibliography of Confucianism after the Southern Song Dynasty and a must-read for Confucian students.