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The Chinese classics or canonical texts are the works of Chinese literature authored prior to the establishment of the imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC. Prominent examples include the Four Books and Five Classics in the Neo-Confucian tradition, themselves an abridgment of the Thirteen Classics. The Chinese classics used a form of written Chinese ...
The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry ( 詩; Shī ), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC. It is one of the "Five Classics" traditionally said to have been ...
It includes examples of early Chinese prose. Book of Rites Describes ancient rites, social forms and court ceremonies. The version studied today is a re-worked version compiled by scholars in the third century BC rather than the original text, which is said to have been edited by Confucius himself. I Ching (Book of Changes)
The history of Chinese literature[ 1] extends thousands of years, and begins with the earliest recorded inscriptions, court archives, building to the major works of philosophy and history written during the Axial Age. The Han (202 BC – 220 AD) and Tang (618–907 AD) dynasties were considered golden ages of poetry, while the Song (960–1279 ...
From ancient representations and literature it is clear that fishing boats were typically small, lacking a mast or sail, and were only used close to the shore. In traditional Chinese history, history begins with three semi-mystical and legendary individuals who taught the Chinese the arts of civilization around 2800–2600 BC: of these Fuxi was ...
Classical Chinese[ a] is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from c. the 5th century BCE. [ 2] For millennia thereafter, the written Chinese used in these works was imitated and iterated upon by scholars in a form now called Literary Chinese, which was used for almost all formal writing in China until the ...
The earliest extant anthologies are the Shi Jing (詩經) and Chu Ci (楚辭). [2] Both of these have had a great impact on the subsequent poetic tradition. Earlier examples of ancient Chinese poetry may have been lost because of the vicissitudes of history, such as the burning of books and burying of scholars (焚書坑儒) by Qin Shi Huang, although one of the targets of this last event was ...
Four Classic Novels in Chinese opera. Sha Wujing, Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, and Zhu Bajie ( Journey to the West) in Shao opera. Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu ( Dream of the Red Chamber) in Yue opera. Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, and Guan Yu ( Romance of the Three Kingdoms) in Sichuan opera. Ma Lin, Lin Chong, Hu Sanniang, and Qin Ming ( Water Margin) in ...