Chinese classic texts

Chinese classic text

The Analects, also known as the Sayings of Confucius, is an ancient Chinese philosophical text composed of sayings and ideas attributed to Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled by his followers.

collection of Chinese poetry, comprising works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC

official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE

collection of ancient Chinese texts that describe the social forms, administrative structures, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty, as interpreted during the Warring States period and the early Han dynasty

one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature

books of Confucianism

Chinese Taoist text

ancient Chinese narrative history that is traditionally regarded as a commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals

Chinese classic, preserved as a chapter in the Lijing; consists of a short main text attributed to Confucius and ten commentary chapters attributed to Zengzi

Chinese Confucian text attributed to attributed to Zisi, grandson of Confucius

Chinese poem consisting of 1000 characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines and grouped into four line rhyming stanzas

term used to illustrate a series of 36 stratagems (referenced: the Book of Qi's seventh biographical volume, Biography of Wáng Jìngzé (王敬則傳), ca. 436CE)

thumb|Calligraphy of a segment of the "Yang Zhu" ("Yang-chu") chapter - Kojima Soshin The Liezi () is a Taoist text attributed to Lie Yukou, a c. 5th century BC Hundred Schools of Thought philosopher. Although there were references to Lie's Liezi from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, a number of Chinese and Western scholars believe that the content of the current text was compiled around the 4th century CE by Zhang Zhan.

Chinese classic text and a compilation of mythic geography and myth

Han dynasty medical treatise

book by Mencius

The Huainanzi is an ancient philosophical and governmental Chinese text made up of essays from scholarly debates held at the court of Liu An, Prince of Huainan, before 139 BCE. Compiled as a compendium for an enlightened sovereign and his court, the work attempts to define the conditions for a perfect socio-political order, derived mainly from a perfect (or enlightened) ruler. With a notable Zhuangzi 'Taoist' influence, alongside Chinese folk theories of yin and yang and Wu Xing, the Huainanzi draws on Taoist, Legalist, Confucian, and Mohist concepts. But it subverts the latter three in favor

13th century Chinese literary work

anthology of Chinese poetry traditionally attributed mainly to Qu Yuan and Song Yu from the Warring States period

ancient Chinese work on bureaucracy and organizational theory

Confucian treatise on filial piety (孝), allegedly composed from a conversation between Confucius and Zengzi but more probably from 4th century BC Warring States period

classic composition of common surnames in China's Song dynasty

2nd century Chinese character dictionary

Chinese classic text compiled by Lü Buwei (239 BC)

classic texts of Chinese literature

ancient Chinese collection of speeches attributed to rulers and other men from the Spring and Autumn period

Chinese classic text about Zhou dynasty social behavior and ceremonial ritual as it was practiced and understood during the Spring and Autumn period

seven important military texts of ancient China

record of the travels of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang from Tang China to India and back

5th-century work on Chinese literary aesthetics by Liu Xie in fifty chapters

thumb|Laojun rushan fu "Lord Laozi|Lao's amulet for entering mountains" from Baopuzi Inner Chapter 17 Baopuzi () is a literary work written by Ge Hong (AD 283–343), (), a scholar during the turbulent Jin dynasty.

The Erya or Erh-ya is the first surviving Chinese dictionary. The sinologist Bernhard Karlgren concluded that "the major part of its glosses must reasonably date from the 3rd century BC."

ancient Chinese treatise on mathematics related to astronomy and astrology

Thirteen Chinese books

archaeological discovery in 1993 in Hubei, China

book written by Zhou Daguan during his stay at Angkor between 1296 and 1297

book by Liu Xiang

collection of four Chinese books

commentary on Spring and Autumn Annals

anthology of Chinese poetry and literature

literary work

earliest book on Taoist alchemy in China

16th century Chinese military manual by Qi Jiguang

ancient Chinese classic work on military strategy, written by Sun Bin

8th century CE Daoist scripture associated with astrology and internal alchemy

Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals

thumb|upright|A page from the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China, the largest leishu ever printed

Chinese literary work

1st century Chinese dictionary of regional terms

book by Xunzi

The Lunheng, also known by numerous English translations, is a wide-ranging Chinese classic text by Wang Chong (27 – ). First published in 80, it contains critical essays on natural science and Chinese mythology, philosophy, and literature.

Memorials written by Zhuge Liang (227-228)

Confucian classic text, lost by the Han dynasty

The Heguanzi (鶡冠子, or Master Pheasant Cap) is a circa 3rd century BCE syncretic collection of writings from the Chinese Hundred Schools of Thought, particularly the schools of Huang-Lao, Daoism, Legalism, and the Military. Assumed a forgery in later Imperial China, discovery of the 2nd-century BCE Han dynasty Mawangdui Silk Texts lead to renewed studies into its textual history and philosophical significance. The previously unknown Huang-Lao Silk Manuscripts have many passages similar and identical with the Heguanzi,

chapter of Book of Documents

ancient Chinese text

collection of Chinese poetry

stone carved books of the Confucian classics (175-183)

undated work by Dong Zhongshu