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It's canonical scriptures are the Five Classics and the Four Books.
The Five Classics are ancient books that Confucius himself studied, including the Book of Songs, The Book of History, the Spring and Autumn Annals, The Book of Rituals, and the Book of Changes, known in the West by its Chinese name, the I Ching.
The Four Books are the Analects of Confucius himself, the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, and a book called Mencius which is a book written by Confucius' greatest successor (Mencius)
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