How many traditional Confucian classics are there?

Thirteen Classics refers to thirteen classics works formed in the Southern Song Dynasty. The feudal rulers "legalized" 13 Confucian classics into "classics" one after another, forming the "Thirteen Classics" with special status in feudal society.

They are The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Zhou Li, Yi Li, Li Ji, Zhouyi, Zuo Zhuan, Gongyang Zhuan, Gu Liangzhuan, The Analects of Confucius, Erya, Xiao Jing and Mencius.

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13 literature, Jing is the highest, followed by Zhuan and Ji, followed by Erya. It took a long time for the Thirteen Classics to gain the status of "classics". In the Han Dynasty, Yi people, historians, Shu people, Li people and the Spring and Autumn Period were regarded as the "Five Classics", and officials attached great importance to them and stood among non-commissioned officers. There are "Nine Classics" in the Tang Dynasty, which are also used as scholar-officials to select scholars.

The Nine Classics includes the biographies of six characters: Yi, Shi, Shu, Yi, Yi and Chun Qiu Zhi. During the Kaicheng period in the Tang Dynasty, the Guo Zi School was carved with stone carvings. The inscribed contents include not only the Nine Classics, but also The Analects of Confucius, Er Ya and Xiao Jing. In the Five Dynasties, Meng Chang founded ten banks, excluding filial piety and Erya, and Mencius was the first bank.

Zhu regarded The Analects of Confucius in The Doctrine of the Mean and The Book of Rites as "Four Books" and officially recognized it as a "classic". At this point, the Thirteen Classics established its classic status. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, thirteen classics were carved on stones, and Ruan Yuan carved thirteen classics. Since then, "Thirteen Classics" and its lofty position in Confucian classics have been more and more welcomed by people. The content of Shi San Jing is extremely extensive.