The Confucian Classics
The foundational texts of the Confucian tradition — the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, and the Analects — given here bilingually in the translation of James Legge.
The Four Books · 四書
The Great Learning
《大學》 The Great Learning — a short Confucian classic on illustrious virtue and the rectification of the self, state and world; the first of the Four Books.
1 texts →The Doctrine of the Mean
《中庸》 The Doctrine of the Mean — on the unwobbling pivot of equilibrium and sincerity, one of the Four Books, ascribed to Zisi.
1 texts →The Analects
The Lún Yǔ (論語) — the collected sayings of Confucius and his disciples, in twenty books. James Legge's bilingual edition (Classical Chinese with English).
20 texts →The Five Classics · 五經
The Book of Poetry
《詩經》 The Shī Jīng — the ancient anthology of three hundred odes, in four sections; the fount of the Chinese poetic tradition. Translated by James Legge.
4 texts →History · Rites · Changes · Annals
The Shū, the Lǐ, the Yì, and the Chūnqiū.
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