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.

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: books

Shangshu is a multi-genre literature compilation, and it is the earliest existing history book in China. According to legend, Shangshu was compiled by Confucius, but some articles were later added by Confucianism. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, there were 29 articles, which were copied in the popular official script of the Han Dynasty, and were called Jinwen Shangshu. Shangshu is the oldest royal anthology in China, the first ancient historical document in China and some books describing ancient deeds. Some important historical materials of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, especially the early Western Zhou Dynasty, have been preserved.

3. 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.

4. Confucian classics: Zhou Li

Zhou Li is a Confucian classic written by Zhou Gongdan, a famous politician, thinker, writer and strategist in the Western Zhou Dynasty. From the analysis of its ideological content, it shows that Confucianism developed to the late Warring States period, integrating Taoism, Buddhism and Yin and Yang, which changed greatly from Confucius' thought in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Zhou Li is extremely rich in content. The world is as big as Kyushu and has an astronomical calendar; As small as ditches, roads, plants, insects and fish. The country's organizational system, politics, law, culture and education, music, military punishment, taxation, food and clothing, sleeping temples, chariots and horses, agricultural and commercial medicine, craft production, all kinds of famous things, regulations and systems are all inclusive. It is a treasure house of ancient culture and history.

5. Confucian classic: "Yili"

"Yili" is one of the thirteen Confucian classics, which records all kinds of etiquette in the Zhou Dynasty, among which the etiquette of scholar-officials is the main one. Before the Qin Dynasty, the content was unknown. At the beginning of Han Dynasty, there were 7 handed down gifts from students in the Tang Dynasty 17, and 56 lost gifts in ancient China.