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| | Four Books Summary |
 | | Before Zhu Xi, Confucian education focused on the Five Classics, that is, the books of History, Poetry, Changes, Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Annals, supplemented by the Analects, Mencius, Xunzi, Dong Zhongshu's (179–104 BCE) Chunqiu fanlu, and such other texts as the Classic on Filial Piety and Ceremonies and Rites (Yili). |
 | | The Four Books of Confucianism (Traditional Chinese: 四書; pinyin: Sì Shū) (not to be confused with the Four Classical Novels of Chinese literature), are Chinese classic texts that Zhu Xi selected, in the Song dynasty, as an introduction to Confucianism: the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Analects of Confucius, and the Mencius. |
 | | It consists of a short main text attributed to Confucius and nine commentaries chapters by Zeng Zi, one of Confucius' disciples. |
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