The four books include the Analects of Confucius, Mencius University and the Five Classics of the Mean, including poetry, calligraphy, rites and Yi Chunqiu, right?

Yes, a list of four books: The University, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. List of Five Classics: The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu.

As long as we talk about the traditional culture of China, we must mention the "Four Books and Five Classics". "Four Books and Five Classics" is an important part of China's traditional culture, the core carrier of Confucianism and the treasure of China's historical and cultural ancient books. The Confucian classic "Four Books and Five Classics" is profound and has a very high position in the history of world cultural thought.

The "Four Books and Five Classics" recorded in detail the political, military, diplomatic and cultural historical materials in the most active period in the history of China's national ideological and cultural development, as well as the important philosophical thoughts of Confucius and Mencius that have influenced China culture for thousands of years. There is nothing else in the examination paper for selecting officials in the imperial examinations of past dynasties, but it must come from the "four books and five classics", which shows its importance to being an official and being a man.

The Four Books and Five Classics have an immeasurable influence on social norms, interpersonal communication and social culture. Today, the contents and philosophical thoughts contained in the Four Books and Five Classics still have positive significance and strong reference value for us modern people.

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Since the Western Han Dynasty, Confucian classics have been established as classics of Chinese studies, and since the Song Dynasty, they have been designated as books for imperial examinations, becoming a must-read for scholars. Therefore, it has a lofty status and great influence. There are only 650,000 words in the Thirteen Classics, and the annotations about the Thirteen Classics reach about 300 million words, which is 400 to 500 times that of the original text.

Zhu's Notes on Four Books and Sentences is of epoch-making significance. The Han and Tang Dynasties were the Five Classics era, and the Song Dynasty was the Four Books era. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the four books were listed as the scope of the imperial examination, thus creating the unique position of the four books. Even after the Song Dynasty, the Four Books had surpassed the Five Classics.

After two years' extension, Zhu Jiang's Notes on Four Books and Sentences was designated as an examination category. Since then, China's imperial examinations have all been given questions within the scope of the notes of the four books.

Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-four books and five classics