Chinese textbooks in ancient China can be roughly divided into five categories: Mongolian textbooks, Confucian classics textbooks, anthology textbooks, poetry textbooks and composition textbooks.

1, Mongolian textbook: Urgent Articles

2. Confucian classic textbooks: represented by the Four Books and Five Classics.

3. Selected Textbooks: Selected Works of Zhaoming

4. Selection of poetry textbook: The Book of Songs

5. Composition textbook: "Standard Articles"

The representative work of Mongolian teaching materials in China is Ji Jiu Pian, which can be roughly divided into seven categories: first, comprehensive category; The second is ethics; The third is historical knowledge; The fourth is the common sense of famous things; Fifth, poetry; Sixth, reference books; Seventh, composition.

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Confucian classic textbooks, represented by the Four Books and Five Classics, are not only the basic textbooks of ancient education in China, but also the main textbooks in the basic training stage of reading and writing after the enlightenment stage centered on literacy education.

The four books refer to the Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. The Five Classics refer to The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu. The Book of Rites usually includes three rites, namely, Yili, Zhou Li and Li Ji. Chunqiu is usually published separately from Zuo Zhuan, Gong Yang Zhuan and Gu Liang Zhuan, which explain Chunqiu, because its text is too brief. The naming of the Four Books began in the Song Dynasty, and the naming of the Five Classics began in Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

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.

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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