Book of Documents
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The Book of Documents or the Classic of History, is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China, and served as
A page of an annotated Book of Documents manuscript from the 7th century, held by the Tokyo National Museum
Fu Sheng expounding on the Classic, attributed to Wang Wei (8th century)
Confucius
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Confucius, born Kong Qiu, was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Much of the shared cultural heritage of the Sinosphere
Book of Documents
…written with the script in use at the beginning of the Western Han dynasty. A longer version of the Documents was said to be discovered in the wall of Confucius's family estate in Qufu by his descendant Kong Anguo in the late 2nd century BC. The texts were referred to as "Old Texts" (gǔwén 古文), because they…
Fresco of Confucius from the Han Dynasty
Tomb of Confucius in Kong Lin cemetery, Qufu, Shandong
The Analects
The Shijing or Classic of Poetry