What does the subset of classics and history mean and what does it include?

1, classic: refers to Confucian classics and annotated classics, such as the Four Books and Five Classics. The four books refer to Daxue, The Analects of Confucius, Mencius and The Doctrine of the Mean, while the five classics refer to Poetry, Book, Rite, Book of Changes and Spring and Autumn Annals.

2. History: a book describing historical facts, geographical boundaries, official positions, etc. There are historical works on historical events in chronological order.

Such as Zuo Zhuan; There are biographical historical works that reflect historical events with human activities, such as Historical Records; There are historical works with events as the main line and related special materials, which were first created in the Southern Song Dynasty, such as Shu Yuan's "History as a Mirror"; There are national historical works, such as Mandarin and Warring States Policy.

3. Zi: refers to hundred schools of thought's works and various scientific and technological works in industry, agriculture and medicine since the Warring States Period, such as Mozi, Zhuangzi, Han Feizi, Compendium of Materia Medica, and Meng Qian's Notes.

4. Anthology: refers to the poetry collections of writers of past dynasties, such as Yuefu Poetry Collection, Ninety-nine Ancient Poems, Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty, China's View on Ancient Literature, etc.

"Subsets of Classics and History" are four categories of ancient books in China. Some large-scale ancient books series often include four books and are named after them, such as Four Ku Quanshu, Four Series and Four Essentials. It can be seen that the four categories are of great significance to ancient books.

Extended data:

The four-part classification of Classics, History, Zi and Ji is the product of China traditional culture, which is suitable for traditional cultural classics. Today, it is still a key for us to be familiar with ancient books and then understand traditional culture. Since the May 4th Movement, China has used the western book classification for reference and classified books according to the modern subject system.

After the Han Dynasty, various ancient books compiled by the government and the people emerged continuously, and the classification methods were improved. In the Western Jin Dynasty, Xunxu's "Jinzhong Classic Book" was changed from six to four, namely, Part A recorded classic books (equivalent to six arts), Part B recorded volumes (including philosophers, military books, mathematics and folk arts), Part C recorded history books, and Part D recorded poetry and fu, which laid the foundation for four categories.

According to the actual situation of ancient books at that time, the Bibliography of Jin Yuan Emperor compiled by Li Chong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty changed the history books into part B and the volumes into part C. Thus, four parts of classics, history, volumes and collections were formed.

The final establishment of the four-part system is embodied in the Annals of Sui Shu Classics, which was actually compiled by Kevin·Z, a famous official in the early Tang Dynasty, and officially marked the names of the four parts of the Classics, History and Discipline, and further subdivided into 40 categories. After the Sui Dynasty, the mainstream of book classification is to follow the four-part classification.

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