ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Five Classics consists of the Book of Odes, Book of Documents, Book of Changes, Book of Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Annals. The Four Books are comprised of the Doctrine of the Mean, the Great Learning, Mencius, and the Analects. From the Han to the early Song, the Five Classics grew into thirteen classics.

Detailed explanation-2: -Traditionally, it was thought that Confucius himself had compiled or edited the texts of the Five Classics.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Six Confucian Classics are The Book of Changes, The Book of History, The Book of Songs, The Book of Rites, The Book of Music, and The Spring and Autumn Annals. An important proposition put forward by scholars of late imperial China was that those are all historical texts.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Wujing collection consists of the Yijing (“Classic of Changes”; known to many as the I-Ching), Shujing (“Classic of History”), Shijing (“Classic of Poetry”), Liji (“Collection of Rituals”), and Chunqiu (“Spring and Autumn [Annals]”).

Detailed explanation-5: -The Lunyu (Analects), the most-revered sacred scripture in the Confucian tradition, was probably compiled by the succeeding generations of Confucius’s disciples.