The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Six Ancestors' Tanjing and Jin He Lu.
It is not difficult to see Mr. Qian Mu's selection criteria: the most classic and the most representative. The three major tributaries of China culture are Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. The origin of Confucianism is naturally The Analects of Confucius and Mencius, and the origin of Taoism is naturally Laozi and Zhuangzi. Of course, the first choice for Buddhists is China's most China and influential Zen classics. After hundred schools of thought, during the Song and Ming Dynasties, there appeared two ideological peaks in the history of China, namely, Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, and Jin and Lu were their respective representative works.
There are three places besides seven departments. Who should I list them for? I think few people will disagree with the following answer:
China culture has always been summarized as "one source and three streams". The third stream is Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and the first source is Zhouyi. The Book of Changes, as the source of China's hundred schools of culture, will definitely occupy a place.
China is an ancient civilization that attaches great importance to history and has the most complete historical records in the world. Historical classics cannot be absent. Among them, the most influential is undoubtedly Historical Records.
China is also a poetic country with thousands of years of poetic tradition in its bones. Of course, poetry collections can't be absent. Of course, this quota should be given to the top-grade and far-reaching Book of Songs.
Then the list of 10' s greatest and most representative works of China culture is naturally:
Zhouyi, Laozi, The Book of Songs, The Analects of Confucius, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Historical Records, Six Ancestors' Tanjing, Jin and Lu.
This list is the most concise, general and simple for China culture, so it is completely required reading. Each of them deserves our lifelong study and understanding, but first you need to know their main meanings and what it means to China culture and China people's spirit.
Read the Book of Changes and learn to think in the clearest way.
The greatest thing about Zhouyi is that it perfectly solves the problem of the integration of Confucianism and Taoism. Confucianism and Taoism are the two main beams of China culture, and the Book of Changes, based on Heaven, makes people understand and profound, which really leads China culture to the general direction and ultimate height of "the unity of heaven and man".
Zhouyi is a classic that can best represent China people's way of thinking and its height, breadth and depth. Profound philosophical concepts such as the circle of Yin and Yang, the cycle, the extreme contradiction of things, and the interdependence of life and life are all born out of this book. Reading Zhouyi is one of the most brilliant ways of thinking to understand and master the world.
In particular, in the past, people paid more attention to the philosophical and personnel interpretation of hexagrams, images and quotations, while ignoring those symbols, thinking that they were only used for divination. In fact, the greatest thing about Zhouyi is its symbol system of Taiji, Yin and Yang, Four Elephants, Eight Diagrams and Sixty-four Guas.
"Tao can be Tao, extraordinary Tao", heaven