Sikuquanshu" is divided into 44 categories. The details are as follows:
The Classics includes 10 major categories: Yi, Shu, Poetry, Rites, Spring and Autumn, Filial Classics, General Meanings of the Five Classics, Four Books, Music, and Primary Schools. Among them, the ritual category is divided into six categories: Zhou Rites, Rituals, Book of Rites, Three Rites General Meanings, Tongli, and Miscellaneous Rites Books; the primary school category is divided into three categories: exegesis, calligraphy books, and rhyme books; the history category includes official history and chronicles. Category, chronicle category, miscellaneous history category, miscellaneous history category, imperial edict and memorial category, biography category, historical banknotes category, record category, seasonal category, geography category, official category, political writing category, catalog category, historical commentary There are 15 major categories, including imperial edicts and memorials, which are divided into two categories: imperial edicts and memorials; biographies are divided into five categories: saints, celebrities, general records, miscellaneous records, and special records; and geography are divided into palaces and generals. There are 10 categories: annals, cities and counties, rivers and canals, border defenses, mountains and rivers, historical sites, miscellaneous notes, travel notes, and foreign notes. The official category is divided into two categories: official system and official admonishment. The political book category is further divided into general system, ceremony, state plan, military administration, There are 6 categories of laws and regulations, and the catalog category is divided into 2 categories: classics and epigraphy; the sub-categories include Confucianism, military science, legalism, farming, medicine, astronomy, algorithm, art, and genealogy. , miscellaneous category, book category, novelist category, Buddhism category, Taoism category, etc. 14 major categories, among which the astronomical algorithm category is divided into two categories: pushing steps and arithmetic, and the arithmetic category is divided into mathematics, divination, and xiangzhaixiangtomb. , divination, fortune telling, fortune telling, yin and yang and five elements, and miscellaneous skills. The art category is divided into four genera: calligraphy and painting, musical notation, seal cutting, and acrobatics. The genealogy category is divided into three genera: utensils, recipes, vegetation, birds, animals, insects, and fish. The miscellaneous family category It is further divided into six categories: Miscellaneous Studies, Miscellaneous Examinations, Miscellaneous Comments, Miscellaneous Articles, Miscellaneous Compilations, and Miscellaneous Compilations. The novelist category is further divided into three categories: Miscellaneous Things, Strange Stories, and Miscellaneous Words; the Collection Department includes Chu Ci, Other Collections, General Collections, and Poetry Reviews. , lyrics and music, etc. 5 major categories, among which the lyrics and music category is divided into 5 categories: collection of words, selected words, words of words, word spectrum and rhyme, and northern and southern songs. In addition to chapter novels and drama works, the above categories basically include all kinds of books circulating in society.
As far as authors are concerned, there are works by various figures including women, monks, Taoists, eunuchs, soldiers, emperors, foreigners, etc.