What are the classic books in ancient China?

China's traditional classic reading materials

The first category: Confucian classics

Four Books and Five Classics —— Analects of Confucius, University, Doctrine of the Mean and Mencius

The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Yijing and Chunqiu

filial piety/mourning

Disciple's rules

Zhu's Notes on Four Books

Expanded sage

The second category: history books

The first four histories-Historical Records, Hanshu, Houhanshu and The History of the Three Kingdoms.

Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government

Zuo zhuan

Conspiracy in the warring States period

Ram biography

Wang Fuzhi, reading is like a mirror

The third category: the grandchildren of Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi and Momo.

Tao Te Ching

Zhuangzi.

xunzi

Everything is wrong.

Mozi

the art of war

Guiguzi

Ming Yi Records Waiting to Visit

The fourth category: other subdivided ancient books.

In general

Young scholar Qiong Lin

Yan jiaxun

Zeng Guofan's letter

The fifth category: pre-Qin anthology.

The Songs of Chu

Hanfu

Selected works of Zhao Ming

The sixth category: Tang and Song poetry.

Thousands of poems

Three hundred Tang Poems and Retreat from the Hall and Room

Zhu Xiaozang's Three Hundred Poems of Song Dynasty

Wu Chucai: China's View of Ancient Literature

Guo Maoqian's Yuefu Poems

Zeng Guofan's Transcript of Eighteen Poems

The seventh category: classical novels and operas.

A Dream in Red Mansions

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The Water Margin?

[Literary Works] Journey to the West

The Scholars

Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio

Shi Shuo Xin Yu

Jin Ping Mei

Romance of the West Chamber

Six chapters of floating life

Tan caigen

Category 8: reference books. Literary theory

Shuo Wen Jie Zi

Wenxindiaolong

poetic sentiment

Words on the earth

Zhang Zhidong, Bibliographic Q&A

Zhu Ziqing's Classic Speech

Lin Yutang, My Country and My People

Category 9: Ancient Science and Technology

Huangdi Neijing

Compendium of Materia Medica

Meng Qian bi tan

Tiangong Wu Kai

The Classic of Mountains and Seas

Category 10: religion

Shurangama Sutra

Diamond Sutra

Six ancestors altar sutra

the heart channel of Hand-Shaoyin

Pu Xian's wish.

Huayanjing

Baopuzi

Excerpted from Baidu netizens, thank you.