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What books on Chinese studies are worth collecting all your life?
1 Tao Te Ching: Laozi's philosophical works in the Spring and Autumn Period. It is a book written by China's ancient pre-Qin philosophers before their separation. It was highly praised by the philosophers at that time and was an important source of Taoist philosophy. The text takes "virtue" in the philosophical sense as the key link, and discusses the ways of self-cultivation, governing the country, using troops and keeping in good health, mostly focusing on politics. It is the so-called "inner sage and outer king", which has profound meaning and wide tolerance and is known as the king of all classics. Tao Te Ching is one of the greatest works in the history of China, which has a profound influence on traditional philosophy, science, politics and religion. According to the statistics of UNESCO, the Tao Te Ching is the most widely translated and published cultural masterpiece except the Bible.

2 "Zhuangzi": Zhuangzi's articles are fantastic in imagination, ingenious in conception, rich in ideological world and literary artistic conception, and Wang Yang's unrestrained writing style is romantic and transcendent, which is a typical work of pre-Qin philosophers. Zhuangzi's words seem to praise Wan Li with infinite imagination, but they are well-founded and more important than historical materials. Mr. Lu Xun said, "His style of writing is Wang Yang's, and his manners are all square. The works of the late Zhou philosophers should not be the first. " Known as "nine-flow pliers, bag a hundred bags."

The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poems and the earliest collection of poems. The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.

Zhouyi is the theoretical source of natural philosophy and humanistic practice in China's traditional ideology and culture, the crystallization of China's ancient thoughts and wisdom, and is known as the "source of Tao". The content is extremely rich, which has had a far-reaching impact on China's politics, economy, culture and other fields for thousands of years.

Book of Rites: It embodies the pre-Qin Confucian philosophical thoughts (such as the view of heaven, world outlook and outlook on life), educational thoughts (such as personal cultivation, educational system, teaching methods and school management), political thoughts (such as educational politics, building a harmonious society, etiquette and criminal law) and aesthetic thoughts (such as the theory of material sense and the theory of harmony between etiquette and music), and is an important material for studying the pre-Qin society. Since Zheng Xuan annotated The Book of Rites in the Western Han Dynasty, the status of The Book of Rites has been rising day by day, and it was honored as "Jing" in the Tang Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, it ranked first in the "Three Rites". The knowledge and ideological theory of ancient cultural history recorded in the Book of Rites have an important influence on the inheritance of Confucian culture, contemporary cultural education and moral cultivation, and the construction of a harmonious socialist society.

6 The Analects of Confucius: It was written by Confucius' disciples and his two disciples, and it was written in the Han Dynasty. It mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples and reflects Confucius' thoughts more intensively. It is one of the classic works of Confucianism. It is mainly based on quoting classics and supplemented by narration, which embodies Confucius' political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles.

7 "Mencius" In the middle of the Warring States Period, Mencius and his disciples Zhang Wan, Gong Sunchou and others. This book records the politics, education, philosophy, ethical thoughts and political activities of Mencius and his disciples. Ancient exams mainly tested four books and five classics.

Han Feizi is the work of Han Fei, a famous thinker in ancient China. The book consists of 55 articles, which is the representative work of Legalists.

Mozi is a classic of hundreds of Mohists in China during the Warring States Period. Advocating universal love, non-aggression, Shang Xian, Shang Tong, bounden duty, Ming-gui, non-fate, non-happiness, and frugal burial involves philosophy, logic, military science, engineering, mechanics, geometry and optics. Most of the scientific and technological achievements in the pre-Qin period depended on Mozi.

10 The Art of War is a brilliant treasure in China's ancient military cultural heritage and an important part of excellent traditional culture. Its content is profound, profound and logical, which is the concentrated embodiment of the essence of ancient military thought.

1 1 "Ancient prose": It has been widely circulated for 300 years, with great influence, and it is unique among many ancient prose anthologies. Mr. Lu Xun, when commenting on The View of Ancient Chinese Literature, thought that it was the same as Selected Works of Zhaoming, and that "the influence on literature is the same, and neither can be underestimated".