The Five Classics refer to The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Yijing and Chunqiu. The Book of Rites usually includes three rites, namely, Yili, Zhou Li and the Book of Rites. 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 First Four History is the first four history books in the Twenty-four History, that is, the first four history books. Including Historical Records by Sima Qian, a historian in the Western Han Dynasty, Hanshu by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Houhanshu by Ye Fan in the Southern Dynasty and The History of the Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou in the Western Jin Dynasty.
The four fantastic books of Ming Dynasty refer to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, The Journey to the West and Jin Ping Mei, which are also called the "four fantastic books" of China's ancient novels. These four novels basically represent four types of China's ancient novels, namely, historical romance novels, heroic legend novels, ghost novels and world love novels; In fact, they are the continuation and development of the four major speaking arts in the Southern Song Dynasty: Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the development of historical novels and China's first novel; Outlaws of the Marsh is about the development of Tieqier, the first vernacular novel in China history. The Journey to the West refers to the development of novels, which is a romantic masterpiece with high artistic achievements and great influence, and the first novel with magical power in China. Jin Ping Mei is the development of novelists' novels and the first novel written independently by literati in China.