{"id":8959,"date":"2019-11-15T19:46:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/the-four-categories-si-ku-quan-shu\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T19:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:46:13","slug":"the-four-categories-si-ku-quan-shu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/the-four-categories-si-ku-quan-shu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Categories (\u56db\u5e93\u5168\u4e66)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;The four categories (sibu \u56db\u90e8) is an old system of categorizing literature in China.In this encyclopedia I will follow the complex Siku quanshu system but I do not treat every book co<em><\/em>ntained in this vast collection.<\/p>\n<p>  In a wider sense can it can be compared with modern librarian systems to arrange book in certain categories. The origin of the sibu system is not clear but it already appears in the oldest extant library catalog, the catalogue of the imperial library at the beginning of the Later Han (Houhan \u540e\u6c49) period (25-220 AD) as recorded in the Hanshu \u6c49\u4e66 &quot;The history of the (Former) Han dynasty&quot; (30 Yiwen zhi \u827a\u6587\u5fd7). It finds its perfection in the classificatory system of the collection Siku quanshu \u56db\u5e93\u5168\u4e66 &quot;The complete books of the Four Storehouses&quot;, a kind of officially acknowledged library which was compiled on imperial orders during the late 18th century. Other collectanea also follow the four category system, like the Sibu co<em><\/em>ngkan \u56db\u90e8\u4e13\u520a or the Sibu beiyao \u56db\u90e8\u5907\u8981.<\/p>\n<p>  On the other side I will also introduce literature not co<em><\/em>ntained in the Siku quanshu.<\/p>\n<p>  \u7d93\u90e8 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jing &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Co<em><\/em>nfucian Classics (incl. music, dictio<em><\/em>naries and elementary learning)<br \/>  \u53f2\u90e8 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shi &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Historiography and politics<br \/>  \u5b50\u90e8 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Zi &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Masters, philosophers and treatises<br \/>  \u96c6\u90e8 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ji &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Anthologies (Belles-lettres, poetry and collected writings)<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3231961054\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;The four categories (sibu \u56db\u90e8) is an old system of categorizing literature in China.In this encyclopedia I will follow the<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-reading"],"views":191,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}