Guiguzi, Historical Records, Shangshu.
1, "Lao Zi"
Laozi is also called Tao Te Ching, Laozi, Five Thousand Words and Five Thousand Articles of Laozi. Laozi's philosophical works in the Spring and Autumn Period are an important source of Taoist philosophical thoughts. The Tao Te Ching takes "morality" in the philosophical sense as the main line, and discusses the ways of self-cultivation, governing the country, using troops and keeping in good health, but it mostly aims at politics. It is the so-called "inner sage and outer king" theory, which has profound meaning and wide tolerance and is known as the king of all classics.
2. The Analects of Confucius
The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations compiled by disciples and re-disciples of Confucius, a thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was written in the early Warring States Period. It embodies the political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles of Confucius and Confucianism. The Analects of Confucius has been listed as one of the "Four Books" since the Song Dynasty, and it has become a must-read bibliography for official textbooks and imperial examinations in ancient schools.
3. Zhouyi
The Book of Changes is one of the Book of Changes and the Three Changes. Another view: I think the Book of Changes is three changes, not one of the traditional classics. According to legend, it was written by Zhou Wenwang Jichang, and The Book of Changes was regarded as the first of the six classics by Confucianism. Known as the head of the group classics, the book of teaching.
4. The Book of Songs
The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems, which collected poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century). In the Western Han Dynasty, it was revered as a Confucian classic, called The Book of Songs, which has been used ever since.
5. Sun Tzu's Art of War
Sun Tzu's Art of War, also known as Sun Wu's Art of War or Wu Sun Tzu's Art of War, is the earliest existing military work in China and the earliest military work in the world. It is about 2300 years earlier than clausewitz's On War, and is known as the "sacred book of military science". Sun Tzu's Art of War is a brilliant treasure in China's ancient military cultural heritage and a concentrated expression of the essence of ancient military thought.
6. Mencius
Mencius is a classic work of Confucianism. It was written by Mencius and his disciple, Gongsun Chou, in the middle of the Warring States Period, and was listed as the "Four Books" by Zhu in the Southern Song Dynasty. This book records the politics, education, philosophy, ethical thoughts and political activities of Mencius and his disciples. In ancient times, "Four Books" and "Five Classics" were mainly tested.
7. Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi is a summary of Taoist thought by Zhuangzi and his later scholars in the middle and late Warring States Period. After the Han Dynasty, Zhuangzi was honored as a real person in the south of the Yangtze River, so Zhuangzi was also called a classic in the south of the Yangtze River. His books, Laozi and Zhouyi are called "San Xuan". Zhuangzi mainly embodies Zhuangzi's critical philosophy, art, aesthetics and so on. Its content is rich and profound, involving philosophy, life, politics, society, art, world outlook and many other aspects.
8.guiguzi
Guiguzi, also known as ally strategy, focuses on the tactics of power and the skills of speech and debate. Gui Guzi's ideological theory was unique in the Warring States period, not only because of his unique theory of vertical and horizontal, but also because he raised his ideological theory to the philosophical level based on "Tao".
9. Historical records
Historical Records, one of the twenty-four histories, was originally named Taishi Gongshu, Taishi GongGong Ji and Taishi Gongji. It is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, and the first biographical general history in China history. The work has written a history of four years and more than three thousand years from the legendary Huangdi era to Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty.
Historical Records has a huge scale and a complete system, which has a great influence on biographical history books. The official history of past dynasties was written in this genre, and Li Sao, praised by later generations as "a masterpiece of historians, has high literary value."
10, Shangshu
Shangshu is a compilation of works about ancient deeds, the earliest title of which was Book. It is divided into Yu Shu, Xia Shu, Shangshu and Zhou Shu. Because it is one of the five Confucian classics, it is also called the Book of Songs. Shangshu is listed as one of the important core Confucian classics and the basic book of Confucian studies in past dynasties. Legend is left over from the "Three Graves and Five Codes" of ancient culture.