Books that do not belong to the Thirteen Classics include "Shuowen", "Historical Records", "Tao Te Ching", "Three Kingdoms", "Guanzi" and other books.
The Thirteen Classics are thirteen Confucian classics formed in the Southern Song Dynasty and highly praised by Confucian scholars of all ages. They are "Book of Changes", "Book of Songs", "Book of Songs", "Zhou Rites", "Rituals", "Book of Rites", "Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan", "Chun Qiu Gong Yang Zhuan", "Chun Qiu Gu Liang Zhuan", "Filial Piety", "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius". "Erya".
The content of the "Thirteen Classics" is extremely broad. In terms of traditional concepts, "Yi", "Poetry", "Book", "Rites" and "Spring and Autumn" are called classics; "Zuo Zhuan" and "Gongyang" "Biography" and "Biography of Guliang" belong to the biography of "Spring and Autumn Classic"; "Book of Rites", "Book of Filial Piety", "The Analects" and "Mencius" are all biographies; "Erya" is an exegesis work by the classics of the Han Dynasty. Among these thirteen kinds of documents, Sutras should have the highest status, followed by biographies and records, and then by Erya.
The formation process of the "Thirteen Classics" is: the Han Dynasty established the "Poetry", "Book", "Yi", "Li" and "Spring and Autumn" under the academic officials, and became the Five Classics: Tang Dynasty added "Zhou Rites" and "Rituals" "Gongyang" and "Huliang" constituted the Nine Classics; during the Kaicheng Dynasty, Guozixue added "The Classic of Filial Piety", "The Analects of Confucius" and "Erya" to constitute the Twelve Classics; in the Song Dynasty, "Mencius" was added, so it is called the Thirteen Classics .
The Peach Blossom Fan·Legacy Society by Kong Shangren of the Qing Dynasty: "If you look at the Thirteen Classics, the Twenty-One Histories, the Nine-Level Three Religions, the Hundred Schools of Thought, the rotten contemporary literature, and novel novels, they are all packed in boxes and shelves. "Xiao Ting Xu Lu Shi Jing" written by Qing Zhaogan said: "In Yong Zhengzhong, there was a man named Jiang Heng who was good at calligraphy and determined to write the Thirteen Classics, which took more than ten years to complete." Volume 18 of "Rizhilu" by Gu Yanwu of the Qing Dynasty; Volume 1 of "Miscellaneous Notes of Exposed Books" by Qian Taiji of the Qing Dynasty.