The Thirteen Classics are respectively

The Thirteen Classics, the thirteen Confucian classics formed in the Southern Song Dynasty. They are The Book of Poetry, The Book of Shang, The Rites of Zhou, The Rites of Passage, The Book of Rites, The Book of Changes, The Book of Zuo, The Book of Gongyang, The Book of Ceres, The Analects of Confucius, The Book of Er Ya, The Book of Filial Piety, and The Book of Mencius. [1]

The process of its formation is: the Han Dynasty set up "Poetry", "Book", "Yi", "Rites of Passage", "Spring and Autumn Annals" in the school officials, for the five scriptures; the Tang Dynasty, plus the "Rites of the Zhou", "Rites of Passage", and the Spring and Autumn Annals is divided into "Spring and Autumn Zuo Biography", "Spring and Autumn Ram Biography", "Spring and Autumn Gerry Leung Biography", for the nine scriptures; to the opening of the Chenggong years carved stone Guozixue, and then add the "Classic of Filial Piety," "The Analects of Confucius", "Erya" for the twelve scriptures; The Southern Song Dynasty added "Mencius", because there are thirteen scriptures.

The Thirteen Classics were gradually developed from the Five Classics of the Han Dynasty, and eventually formed in the Southern Song Dynasty. The earliest Confucian classics of the Han Dynasty, known as the six sutras, were the Yi, the Book, the Poetry, the Rites, the Music, and the Spring and Autumn Annals, and the early anonymity of the Lejing, so there were only five sutras. Among them, "easy", "book", "poetry" in the Confucius has long been circulating, "Zuozhuan" has been quoted many times, "rites" is a summary of the social etiquette of the time, I do not know when the book was written. It is rumored that Confucius used these four books as teaching materials when he set up his school. (By the way, these four scriptures had practical significance at that time, "Yi" divination, according to "Zuo Zhuan" at that time, people in making major decisions before, all to divination; "Book", mainly recorded the words of the ancient kings, decrees, as well as important deeds for the history; "Poetry", also known as the "Poetry 300", social occasions at that time, often poems to say, through the recitation of different poems to express the meaning of their respective; "Rites" that is, the "ceremonial rituals," is a summary of the various ceremonial rites and rituals at that time, and said that the "Rites" was the "Rites", which is the summary of the social ceremonies at that time. The "Rites", or "Rites of Passage", are the regulations and explanations of various rituals and ceremonies at that time, such as the crown rite of adulthood and the mourning clothes for funerals, and so on. All of them had practical significance, and mastering them was also the requirement of the society at that time for a qualified cab.) The Spring and Autumn Annals was the common name for the history books of various countries at that time, and the Spring and Autumn Annals is said to have been written by Confucius in the form of the "Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu", which expresses Confucius's praise and criticism of history in the smallest terms.