What are the Confucian classics?

Confucian classics mainly include the Thirteen Classics of Confucian Holy Education. That is, Yi, Shu, Shi, Yi, Shu, Zuo Zhuan in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhuan Yang in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhuan Gu Liang in the Spring and Autumn Period, The Analects of Confucius, The Book of Filial Piety, Er Ya and Mencius.

The earliest Six Classics are Poetry, Calligraphy, Ceremony, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Period and Jing Yue. After Jing Yue was lost in his early years, there were only five classics. The Thirteen Classics gradually developed from the Five Classics of Han Dynasty and finally formed in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Confucian classics:

1, Confucian classic: Yi

The Book of Changes is also called the Book of Changes or the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes is essentially a book about divination. "Divination" is to predict the development of future events, and The Book of Changes is a book that summarizes the laws and theories of these predictions.

The Book of Changes is the source of natural philosophy and ethical practice in China's traditional ideology and culture, and the oldest primitive divination in China, which has had a great influence on China culture. It is the crystallization of China's 5,000-year-old wisdom culture and is known as "the head of the group classics and the source of the avenue".

2. Confucian classics: poetry

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China, which contains about 500 years of poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century). In addition, there are six poems with topics but no content, that is, no words, which are called sheng poems, also known as "Three Hundred Poems". In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since.

3. Confucian classic: The Book of Rites

The Book of Rites is an important book of laws and regulations in ancient China. This book was compiled by Dade, a Li Shi in the Western Han Dynasty, and his nephew Dai Sheng. The ideas it expounds include society, politics, ethics, philosophy, religion and other aspects, among which "University", "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Li Yun" contain rich philosophical thoughts.

4. Confucian classic: Biography of the Spring and Autumn Ram

Biography of the Spring and Autumn Ram is one of the Confucian classics. It is an ancient book that specially explains the Spring and Autumn Annals. The genre feature of Biography of Ram is the combination of classics and biographies, which narrates the great significance of Chunqiu sentence by sentence, which is different from that of Zuozhuan, which mainly records historical facts.

Biography of the Ram is an important classic in Confucian classics, which is often used as a tool to discuss politics by Confucian classics in past dynasties. At the same time, it is also an important material for studying Confucianism from pre-Qin to Han Dynasty.