"Four Books" and "Five Classics" are important parts of China traditional culture, classic works of China Confucianism and ancient books of China history and culture. The name of "Four Books" began in the Southern Song Dynasty when Zhu Jiang, a great scholar, compiled and engraved the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Daxue and The Doctrine of the Mean, and asked them to be published in the world, calling them "Four Books".
The Four Books and Five Classics occupy a very important position in many literary works of China traditional culture, and they are the core classics of Confucian scholars' research in past dynasties. The Four Books and Five Classics recorded in detail the political, military, diplomatic, cultural and other historical materials in China's early ideological and cultural development history, as well as the important thoughts of thinkers such as Confucius and Mencius.
The four books refer to the university, the golden mean, the Analects of Confucius and Mencius. The Five Classics refer to The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu. Spring and Autumn Annals are usually published together with Zuo Zhuan, Gong Yang Zhuan and Gu Liang Zhuan, which explain Spring and Autumn Annals, because their words are too brief.
In July, 2008, Tsinghua University collected a number of bamboo slips from the Warring States Period, which were identified by experts as ancient books, including many ancient books and historical documents. Among the bamboo slips published in Tsinghua this time, three biographies of Fu Shuo attract people's attention, and their contents are completely different from the pseudo-ancient prose Shangshu which appeared in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which proves once again the pseudo-ancient prose Shangshu handed down from generation to generation. Besides, Zhou Li was actually written between the Han Dynasty.