What is Shangshu and what is it used for?

Shangshu: one of the Confucian classics, also known as book or book classics. Shang means Shang. Shangshu is an ancient book, a compilation of China's ancient historical documents and some works tracing back ancient deeds. It is the first collection of classical prose and the earliest historical document of the Han nationality in China, mainly memorizing words. Since the early Han Dynasty, there are two different versions, modern and ancient. According to Hanshu, there are 65,438+000 articles in Historical Records, which are arranged and prefaced by Confucius. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he issued a book burning order. The burning of books in the Qin dynasty brought a devastating blow to the spread of Shangshu, and almost all the originals of Shangshu were burned. In the Han dynasty, Confucianism was re-valued. Shangshu was written by Dr. Sheng in official script, with a total of 28 articles, which is called Shangshu in modern Chinese. In the Western Han Dynasty, it is said that when King Lu Gong demolished a section of the wall of Confucius' former residence, he found another book, Shangshu, which was written in the font of the Six Kingdoms period before Qin Dynasty, and people called it the ancient prose Shangshu. According to Kong Anguo, a descendant of Confucius, there are 16 more ancient books "Shangshu" in China than the current "Shangshu". In the battle of Yongjia in the Western Jin Dynasty, the modern and ancient versions of Shangshu were all lost.