The content of Sikuquanshu is very rich. Which four books are classified by content?

According to the content classification, Sikuquanshu is divided into four parts: classics, history, books and collections.

Confucian Thirteen Classics and related works are collected by the Ministry of Classics, including the Book of Changes, Books, Poems, Rites, Spring and Autumn Period, Filial Piety, Five Classics, Four Books, Music, Primary School, etc. 10, among which Rites are divided into six categories: Zhou Rites, Rites, Rites, Three Rites, General Rites and Miscellaneous Rites.

The history department collects history books, including official history, chronicle, miscellaneous history, other history, imperial edict, biography, historical records, factual records, seasons, geography, official positions, political books, catalogues, historical reviews, etc. 15.

The sub-department contains hundreds of works and books, including Confucianism, military strategists, legalists, farmers, doctors, astronomical algorithms, astrology, art, music records, miscellaneous books, novellas, Buddhists, Taoists, etc. 14 category.

Poetry collection includes poetry collections and special collections, including Chu Ci, Bieci, anthology, poetry criticism, lyrics and songs. Among them, the lyrics and songs also belong to five genera, namely, word segmentation set, word selection, thorn, word spectrum and rhyme, and North and South songs. In addition to Zhang Hui's novels and dramas, the above categories basically include all kinds of books popular in society. As far as the author is concerned, it includes the works of women, monks, Taoist priests, eunuchs, soldiers, emperors and foreigners.

Introduction of Sikuquanshu

Since Sikuquanshu includes all the records of ancient books before Qianlong, it is duty-bound to summarize the traditional scholarship, because the traditional bibliography only sorts the ancient books according to a certain system, and then reflects the history of academic development through the literature records themselves, classification, cataloging and sorting.

Therefore, sorting out ancient books, summing up and judging traditional scholarship has become an important task for the compilers of Sikuquanshu, and the General Catalogue of Sikuquanshu came into being.

Before Si Shu's revision, the publishing industry in Qing Dynasty was highly developed, ancient books were fully accumulated, the collection of books was prosperous, and the work of document collation was carried out in an all-round way, and Sinology became the mainstream style of study. Under the style of study of the times, scholars need to read a large number of books and many complete original works to quote materials and textual research on academic origins. It is time to consciously review and summarize the western learning that has entered China since the end of Ming Dynasty, so as to guide people to understand western learning and establish western learning policies.