What are the earliest masterpieces?

China's earliest work-The Book of Changes

The Book of Changes is also called the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes means change, and The Book of Changes is a book about change. It is said that there were "three changes" in ancient times, that is, three books about changes. Xia Dynasty is easy to call Lianshan, Shang Dynasty is easy to call Guizang, and Zhou Dynasty is easy to call Zhouyi. After Confucius wrote The Book of Changes, The Book of Changes became a Confucian classic and was called The Book of Changes.

The Book of Changes is divided into 64 hexagrams, each of which consists of three parts: hexagrams, poems and biographies. The Book of Changes is the most influential work in ancient China. There are about 2,000 kinds of annotations in the past dynasties, among which there are works that divine by analyzing divination images and hexagrams, and there are also many works devoted to expounding the philosophical thoughts of the Book of Changes.

After Confucianism gained the dominant position in the Han Dynasty, The Book of Changes had a profound influence on China culture for more than two thousand years. Under the cultural exchange between the East and the West, the Book of Changes, as a masterpiece of oriental philosophy and thinking, has also had a great influence on the intellectual circles in Europe and America.