六经 (六經) liù jīng

liù jīng phrase the six classics
Domain: Literature 文学 , Subdomain: China
Notes: The six classics are: The Book of Changes 易经, The Book of History 书经, The Book of Songs 诗经, The Book of Rites 礼记, The Book of Music 乐, and The Spring and Autumn 春秋 (Yong and Peng, 2008, p. 21) This multiword expression appears as early as Zhuangzi: 丘治詩、書、禮、樂、易、春秋六經 ''I have occupied myself with the Shi, the Shu, the Li, the Yue, the Yi, and the Chun Qiu, those six Books ...' (Zhuangzi, The Revolution of Heaven 莊子‧天運; Legge, 1891)

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