The 5 Chinese classics wujing 五 经

yijing 易经 (Book of Changes; 64 hexagrams)

• it dates from the time of King Wen (1100 BC) and originally only comprised oracle bones. These were later expanded with additions and comments from the time of Confucius, the “10 wings”
• the yijing includes numerous differentiated, richly pictorial representations
• it served as an education and quotation book
• specify the yin-yang 阴阳 polar original principles. These are a complicated system, which traces the structure of all things in the world back to the 5 original wells (water, earth, wood, metal, fire). This system refers to a reciprocal interaction of assignment  + correspondence of all events in the cosmos and on earth

shijing 诗经 (book of songs; Zhou period; collection of folk songs)

• the shijing consists mainly of folk songs and is the oldest collection of Chinese poems (10th-7th centuries BC)
• the folk songs were classified according to vassal states
• Confucianism: moral interpretation
• songs-texts for ceremonial and sacrificial purposes

shujing 书 经 (book of documents; laws   edicts with comments)

liji 礼记 (book of rites; rites for dealing with ancestors, kings, families)

chunqiu 春秋 (spring and autumn annals; chronicles events in Confucius' home state Lu 8th-5th century BC