What three categories can ancient Chinese language textbooks be divided into?

Chinese language teaching materials in ancient my country can be roughly divided into five categories: elementary school teaching materials, classics teaching materials, selected literature teaching materials, selected poetry teaching materials and composition teaching materials.

1. Elementary school textbooks: "Jijiupian"

2. Confucian classics textbooks: represented by the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics".

3. Textbook of selected works: "Selected Works of Zhaoming"

4. Textbook of book of poems: "The Book of Songs"

5. Textbook of composition : "Article Standards"

The representative work of my country's elementary school textbooks is "Jijiupian", which can be roughly divided into seven categories: first, comprehensive category; second, ethics and moral category; third, historical knowledge category; fourth The first is the common sense category of famous things; the fifth is the poetry category; the sixth is the reference book category; and the seventh is the composition category.

Extended information

The classics textbooks represented by the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics" are not only the basic textbooks for ancient Chinese education, but also the enlightenment centering on literacy education. The main teaching materials for the basic reading and writing training stage after the first stage.

The Four Books refer to "The Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "The Analects" and "Mencius".

The Five Classics refers to the five books of "The Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "Book of Rites", "Book of Changes" and "Spring and Autumn".

"Book of Rites" usually includes three rites, namely "Rites", "Zhou Rites" and "Book of Rites"; "Chun Qiu" because the text is too simple, is usually compared with "Zuo Zhuan" and "Zuo Zhuan" which explain "Chun Qiu". "Gongyang Zhuan" and "Gu Liang Zhuan" were published separately.

The name of the Four Books began in the Song Dynasty, and the name of the Five Classics began in Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The "Four Books and Five Classics" record in detail the political, military, diplomatic, cultural and other aspects of the most active period in the history of the ideological and cultural development of the Chinese nation, as well as the important philosophies of Confucius and Mencius that have influenced Chinese culture for thousands of years. Thought.

In the imperial examinations of the past dynasties, the questions in the examination papers must come from the "Four Books and Five Classics", which shows how important they are to the way to be an official and a person in the world.

To this day, the content and philosophical thoughts contained in the "Four Books and Five Classics" still have positive significance and strong reference value for us modern people.