What does jing shi mean in Chinese?

经史 jīng shǐ China's traditional book classification is generally divided into four major sections: jing, shi, zi ji. Among them, the Jing division includes the Confucian classics and books on elementary school (philology). The history section includes various history books and some geography books. The term "classics and history" generally refers specifically to these two categories of books. In addition, the Department of Sons included the writings of the Hundred Schools of Thought. The collection includes the general and specialized collections of poems, essays, words, and fugues. Scripture: refers to Confucianism as the classics and commentary on the classics, such as the "Four Books and Five Classics". The "Four Books" refers to "University", "Analects", "Mencius" and "The Meanwhile", and the "Five Classics" refers to "Poetry", "Books", "Rites", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn Annals".

2, history: historical facts, geographical boundaries, official positions and other books. There are chronological historical works that organize relevant historical events with chronological clues.

Such as "Zuo Zhuan"; there are characters to reflect the activities of historical events biographical historical works, such as the "Shiji"; there are events as the main line, will be related to thematic materials together, the first in the Southern Song Dynasty, the chronicle of the end of the body of historical writings, such as the Yuan Shu's "Tongjian chronicle of the end of the book"; there is a country as a unit of national historical writings, such as the "state language", "warring states", and so on. The four major categories of Chinese ancient books are "Jing, Shi, Zi and Jiji", which are differentiated by their contents. From the "New Tang Book - Arts and Letters Zhi I": "The two capitals each gathered four books, to the A B C D for the next, listed in the four libraries of scripture, history and collection." Some large ancient books often include four series, and used to name, such as the "four libraries", "four series of books", "four parts to prepare", etc., four classification of the importance of ancient books is self-evident. 1, the scriptures: scriptures, refers to the classic works of Confucianism; such as the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, etc. 2, history: history, that is, the official history; such as the twenty-four histories, etc.; 3, Zi: pre-Qin hundred writings, religion; such as "Han Fei Zi", "Gigu Zi", etc.; 4, the set: collection of writings, that is, a compilation of poems and lyrics. Generally refers to China's ancient canonical books. Such as "Chu Rhetoric", Taoist scriptures, Buddhist scriptures and so on.