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Confucian classics

Confucian classics include The Book of Changes and The Book of Rites. Related knowledge is introduced as follows:

1, Yijing: Yijing is also called Yijing or Yijing. Divination is essentially to predict the development of future events, and the Book of Changes is a book that summarizes the laws and theories of these predictions. The Book of Changes is the source of natural philosophy and ethical practice in China's traditional ideology and culture, and the oldest primitive divination in China, which has had a great influence on China culture. It is the crystallization of China's 5,000-year-old wisdom culture, and is known as the head of the group classics and the source of the avenue.

2. Poetry: The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China, including poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century) for about 500 years. In addition, there are six poems with topics but no content, that is, no words, which are called sheng poems, also known as "Three Hundred Poems". In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since.

3. The Book of Rites: The Book of Rites is an important law book in ancient China. This book was compiled by Dade, a Li Shi in the Western Han Dynasty, and his nephew Dai Sheng. The ideas it expounds include all aspects, among which University, Doctrine of the Mean and Liu Yun all have rich philosophical thoughts.

4. Biography of the Spring and Autumn Ram: Biography of the Spring and Autumn Ram is one of the Confucian classics. It is an ancient book that specially explains the Spring and Autumn Annals. The genre feature of Biography of Ram is the combination of classics and biographies, which narrates the great significance of Chunqiu sentence by sentence, which is different from that of Zuozhuan, which mainly records historical facts. Biography of the Ram is an important classic in Confucian classics, which is often used as a tool to discuss politics by Confucian classics in past dynasties. At the same time, it is also an important material for studying Confucianism from pre-Qin to Han Dynasty.