What are the Five Classics?

The Pentateuch refers to the Book of Poetry, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes, the Book of Changes, the Spring and Autumn Annals, or simply "Poetry, Book, Rites, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Annals".

The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China,**** including 305 poems from the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, more than five hundred years. The Book of Songs **** has three parts: Feng, Ya, and Song. Among them, the wind includes fifteen "national winds" with 160 poems; elegance is divided into "Daya" and "Xiao Ya" with 105 poems; and ode is divided into "Ode to the Zhou", "Ode to the Lu" and "Ode to the Shang" with 40 poems.

The Book of Songs*** collects 311 poems, of which 6 are pith poems, with only titles and no content, and 305 are extant. By the Warring States period. Rites and music collapsed, a large number of music scores were lost, and the only surviving lyrics were compiled into the Book of Songs. The pre-Qin period was called "Poems", or the whole number of them was taken and called "Poems 300". During the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic and became known as the Classic of Poetry, which is still in use today.

Shangshu, the earliest book name for the book, about the fifth century before the book, the traditional "Shangshu" (also known as the "present Shangshu") by Fusheng down. Legend has it that it is a leftover work from the ancient culture of the Three Graves and Five Classics.

The twenty-eight Shangshu dictated by Fu Sheng, a scholar of the Western Han Dynasty, is the present-day Shangshu, and another Shangshu, the ancient Shangshu, was discovered by King Gong of Lu when he demolished a section of the wall of Confucius' former residence. Western Jin Dynasty Yongjia years of war, the present and the ancient text of the "Shangshu" all scattered. At the beginning of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Mei Ze, the inner historian of Yuzhang, presented a copy of the Shangshu to the court, including 33 pieces of the Shangshu in the modern language and 25 pieces of the pseudo Shangshu in the ancient language.

Shangshu is listed as one of the important core Confucian classics, and the basic books studied by Confucian scholars through the ages. "Shang" means "on", and "Shangshu" is the book of the ancient times, which is a compilation of historical documents and some writings tracing ancient deeds in China, and it is the earliest compilation of historical documents in our country.

The Book of Rites, also known as Xiaodai Rites and Xiaodai Ji, was written in the Han Dynasty and compiled by Dai Sheng, a Western Han ritualist. The Book of Rites is an important anthology of ancient China's canonical system, *** twenty volumes and forty-nine articles , the contents of the book is mainly written about the pre-Qin ritual system, reflecting the pre-Qin Confucian philosophical thought, educational thought, political thought, aesthetic thought, is the study of the pre-Qin society is an important source of information , is a compendium of Confucian thought .

The Book of Rites is a compendium of Confucian thought. It has a strict chapter and verse style, with a vivid and elegant style of writing, echoing back and forth, and a neat and varied language, and it is one of the "Three Rites", one of the "Five Classics", and one of the "Thirteen Classics". Since Zheng Xuan made a "note" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the status of "The Records of Rites" has been rising day by day, and it was honored as a "scripture" in the Tang Dynasty, and after the Song Dynasty, it was ranked as the first of the "Three Rites". The knowledge of ancient culture and history, as well as the ideas and doctrines recorded in the Book of Rites, have had a significant impact on the transmission of Confucian culture, contemporary cultural education and moral upbringing, as well as the construction of a harmonious socialist society.

The Zhouyi, or the Book of Changes, one of the Three Books of Changes (another point of view: that the Book of Changes is the Three Books of Changes, not the Zhouyi), is one of the traditional classics, which is rumored to have been written by the Zhou Dynasty's king, Jichang, and consists of two parts, namely, the Book of Changes and the Book of Changes. Jing" is mainly 64 hexagrams and three hundred and eighty-four lines, hexagrams and lines have their own instructions (trigrams, lines), as a divination. The concepts of yin and yang and taiji were not introduced in the Zhouyi, and it was the Yi Chuan that was influenced by the Taoists and the Yin-Yang School that spoke of yin and yang and taiji. The biography contains seven texts*** ten articles explaining the trigrams and lines, collectively known as the Ten Wings, which are said to have been written by Confucius.

The Spring and Autumn Annals is the Spring and Autumn Annals scripture, also known as the "Lin Jing" or "Lin Shi", etc., is one of the ancient Chinese Confucian canonical books "Six Classics", is China's first chronicle of history, but also during the Zhou Dynasty, Lu's history, the existing version of the Confucius is said to be revised by the revision of the.

The Spring and Autumn Annals is extremely concise in its language, but almost every sentence contains a complimentary or negative connotation, which has been referred to by later generations as the "Spring and Autumn Writing Style" and the "Subtle Speech". Later on, there appeared many books that supplemented, explained, and expounded the history recorded in the Spring and Autumn Annals, which were called "Chuan" (传). The representative works are known as the "Spring and Autumn three biographies" of the "Zuo Zhuan", "Gongyang Zhuan", "Guliang Zhuan".