• The Four Books and Five Classics are authoritative and important books associated with Confucianism, written before 300 BC. They are traditionally believed...
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  • include the Four Books and Five Classics in the Neo-Confucian tradition, themselves an abridgment of the Thirteen Classics. The Chinese classics used a form...
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  • also be romanized as Wu Ching Five Classics (五經), a collection of ancient Confucian books, see Four Books and Five Classics Wu Ho-ching (born 1991), Hong...
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    Doctrine of the Mean (category Four Books and Five Classics)
    The Doctrine of the Mean or Zhongyong is one of the Four Books of classical Chinese philosophy and a central doctrine of Confucianism. The text is attributed...
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    Analects (category Four Books and Five Classics)
    the older Five Classics, and it was recognized as one of the "Four Books". The Analects has been one of the most widely read and studied books in China...
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  • dynasty and have shaped much of East Asian culture and thought. It includes all of the Four Books and Five Classics but organizes them differently and includes...
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  • the Four Books and Five Classics or the broader Thirteen Classics. Classics (Ali Project album), 2001 Classics (Aphex Twin album), 1994 Classics (Joey...
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    Classic of Poetry (category Four Books and Five Classics)
    and presented accompanied with music at the royal courts. The Classic of Poetry historically has a major place in the Four Books and Five Classics, the...
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    Book of Rites (category Four Books and Five Classics)
    other books creating the Four Books. Following the decision of the Yuan dynasty (followed by the Ming and Qing) to make the Five Classics and the Four Books...
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  • Great Learning (category Four Books and Five Classics)
    which formed one of the Five Classics. It consists of a short main text of the teachings of Confucius transcribed by Zengzi and then ten commentary chapters...
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    achievements (e.g. Four Great Beauties, Four Great Classical Novels, Four Books and Five Classics, etc.), the concept of the Four Great Inventions originated...
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    The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important...
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    Mencius (book) (redirect from Four sprouts)
    conversations and anecdotes attributed to the Confucian philosopher Mencius (c. 371 – c. 289 BC). The book is one of the Chinese Thirteen Classics, and explores...
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  • Ancient Script Texts (category Four Books and Five Classics)
    the Ancient Script Classics (Chinese: 古文經; pinyin: Gǔwén Jīng; Wade–Giles: Kuwen Ching) refer to some versions of the Five Classics discovered during the...
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    The Spring and Autumn Annals is an ancient Chinese chronicle that has been one of the core Chinese classics since ancient times. The Annals is the official...
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    Book of Documents (category Four Books and Five Classics)
    one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China, and served as the...
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  • Classic of Music (category Four Books and Five Classics)
    the burning of books and burying of scholars. A few traces remain in other surviving works, including the Zuo Zhuan, the Rites of Zhou, and the extremely...
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    Imperial City of Huế (category Building and structure articles needing translation from Vietnamese Wikipedia)
    study room of learning Historical documents such as Chinese Four Books and Five Classics and the other historical lesson. Working place of civil mandarins...
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  • involved numerous Confucian classics, such as the Four Books and Five Classics, alongside poetry, dictionaries, histories and surveys on topics such as...
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    government service, often focusing on Confucian thought and knowledge of the Four Books and Five Classics, in relation to governmental ideals. Various skills...
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    Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. ISBN 978-1-78656-052-0. European Food...
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  • in the Confucian curriculum, the "Four Books and Five Classics", and sometimes called "shi" (Chinese:士), scholar, and "shen" (Chinese:绅), or gentry. They...
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    government service, often focusing on Confucian thought and knowledge of the Four Books and Five Classics, in relation to governmental ideals. Test takers could...
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    are the classic books (經; jīng; 'warp') such as the Confucian canon including the "Four Books and Five Classics" (四書五經; sìshū wǔjīng) and the "Classic of...
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    one of the birthplaces of modern sinology. The Four Books and Five Classics are the authoritative books of Confucianism, which were used to study for civil...
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  • into two categories: the Five Classics, allegedly commented and edited by Confucius, and the Four Books. The Five Classics are: the I Ching, or Classic...
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    Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. ISBN 978-1-78656-052-0. Mencius (2004-10-28)...
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    Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. ISBN 978-1-78656-052-0. Mencius (28...
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    Pound, and Sainte-Beuve. These books can be published as a collection such as Great Books of the Western World, Modern Library, or Penguin Classics, debated...
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    service examinations in 1384, with only required knowledge of the Four Books and Five Classics. The promotion of Confucianism strengthened the emphasis on moral...
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