Six Classics - Liu-jing (English)

Japanese: 六経 - りくけい（英語表記）Liu-jing

The six basic classics of Confucianism: "I Ching," "Shu," "Poetry," "Rites," "Spring and Autumn Annals," and "Music." Poetry, Calligraphy, Rites, and Music (four academic fields combining literature, political science, cultural education, and self-cultivation), which were essential for Confucian intellectuals in the pre-Qin period, were gradually canonized as the orthodox documents of Confucianism from the Warring States period to the Han dynasty. In the process, Confucians added two more subjects, the Spring and Autumn Annals (history and political science) and "I Ching" (philosophy, political science, and self-cultivation), and respected these six classics as their basic classics. When Emperor Wu established the doctorate in classical Chinese, the five classics ("I Ching," "Shu," "Poetry," "Rites," and "Spring and Autumn Annals") were the subjects of the doctorate, excluding music.

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Japanese:

儒教の基本的な6つの経典。『易』『書』『詩』『礼』『春秋』『楽』の6つの経書。先秦の儒家的知識人が必須の教養としていた詩，書，礼，楽 (文学，政治学，文化的素養，修身を兼ねそなえる4つの学問分野) は，戦国時代から漢代にかけて儒教の正統的文献として次第に経典化されていくが，その過程で儒家はさらに春秋 (歴史学，政治学) ，易 (哲学，政治学，修身) の2教科をつけ加え，この六経を彼らの基本的経典として尊んだ。武帝の経学博士設置のときには楽を除いた五経 (『易』『書』『詩』『礼』『春秋』) がその対象となった。

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