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When were The University and The Doctrine of the Mean included in the four books?
In the first year of Song Guangzong (1 190), Zhu, a famous Neo-Confucianism scholar, collected works such as Daxue, Analects of Confucius, Mencius and The Doctrine of the Mean in Fujian Zhangzhou and published them as a set of classics.

/kloc-at the age of 0/9, Zhu took the Jinshi exam. He once served as Governor of Nankang, Jiangxi, Governor of Zhangzhou, Fujian and Governor of East Zhejiang. He is an honest official and promotes the construction of academies. This official worships Huan's attendance system and gives lectures to the emperor.

Zhu Zhu is the author of Notes on Four Books and Sentences, Notes on Taiji, Notes on General Books, Readings of Zhouyi, Notes on Chu Ci, etc. Later generations compiled Zhuzi Daquan and Zhuzi Xiang. Among them, "Notes to Four Books and Chapters" became the standard of textbooks and imperial examinations.

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The Four Books and Five Classics recorded in detail the political, military, diplomatic, cultural and other historical materials in China's early ideological and cultural development history, as well as the important thoughts of thinkers such as Confucius and Mencius.

1. List of four books: University, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius.

2. List of Five Classics: The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu. 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.