People's education publishing house must read Chinese classics in high school.

The required reading books for senior high school Chinese published by People's Education Publishing House: The Analects of Confucius, The Journey to the West, A Dream of Red Mansions, Water Margin, Camel Xiangzi, Notre Dame, Border Town, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shout, Four Generations under One roof, Hongyan, Thunderstorm and Eugenie Grande.

1. The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations compiled by disciples of Confucius, a thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period. The book was written in the early Warring States period. The whole book consists of 20 chapters and 492 sections, with quotations as the main part and narratives as the auxiliary part, which embodies the political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles of Confucius and Confucianism.

2. Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en, one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is the first romantic novel written by China and Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty.

3. A Dream of Red Mansions is an ancient Zhang Hui novel of China and one of the four classical novels of China. It is generally believed that it was written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty. With the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, Jia Baoyu, a rich son, as the perspective, and the love and marriage tragedies of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, the novel depicts the lives of a group of boudoir beauties whose manners and knowledge overshadow men's eyebrows, showing the true beauty of human nature and tragedy. It can be said that it is an epic work that shows the beauty of ancient women in China and various social conditions from all angles.

4. "The Water Margin" Shi Naian is the first novel written in ancient vernacular in China history to praise the peasant uprising.

5. Camel Xiangzi is a novel written by Lao She (Shu Qingchun, 1899- 1966), which describes the tragic fate of rickshaw pullers during the warlord scuffle in the 1920s. Xiangzi was a representative of the working people in the old society.