Five Classics

(noun)

The basis of civil examinations in imperial China and the Confucian canon. They consist of the Book of Odes, the Book of Documents, the Book of Changes, the Book of Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Annals. 

Related Terms

Examples of Five Classics in the following topics:

  • Dividing the Octave, More or Less

    • For major and minor scales, there are seven notes; for pentatonic, five; for a chromatic scale, twelve.
    • For example, the classical music of India recognizes twenty-two different possible pitches within an octave; each raga uses five, six, or seven of these possible pitches.
    • (Please see Indian Classical Music: Tuning and Ragas for more on this. ) And there are some traditions in Africa that use six or eight notes within an octave.
    • Besides being necessary to describe the scales and tuning systems of many Non-Western traditions, they have also been used in modern Western classical music, and are also used in African-American traditions such as jazz and blues.

  • Rome

    • Rome's connections to classical antiquity made it an important site for the Neoclassical movement during the 18th century.
    • In the 18th century, the city's longstanding connections to classical antiquity made it a site of particular interest to the increasingly widespread Neoclassical movement.
    • Artists including Pompeo Batoni and Giovanni Piranesi essentially based their entire careers upon catering to tourists.The increasing popularity of the Grand Tour, and the related desire for visitors to collect "classical" souvenirs, quickly spread the Neoclassical style throughout Europe.
    • Winners of the "Prix de Rome" (Rome Prize) were awarded a three-, four- or five-year scholarship to study at the prestigious institution.
    • Artists studying the classics in Rome would send back to Paris their "envois de Rome;" the results of the inspiration and technique they had acquired in the city.

  • The Classical Period of the Maya

    • The Classic period lasted from 250–900 CE.
    • The political relationship between Classic Maya city-states has been likened to the relationships between city-states in Classical Greece and Renaissance Italy.
    • The Maya believed there were five chaotic days at the end of the solar year that allowed the portals between worlds to open up, known as Wayeb'.
    • The Classic Maya Collapse refers to the decline of the Mayan Classic Period and abandonment of the Classic Period Maya cities of the southern Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica between the 8th and 9th centuries.
    • Early Classic period (c. 250 - 600 CE.)

  • Classic Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

    • The viral hemorrhagic (or haemorrhagic) fevers (VHFs) are a diverse group of animal and human illnesses that may be caused by five distinct families of RNA viruses: the families Arenaviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, Flaviviridae, and Rhabdoviridae.
    • Ebola has five viral subtypes including Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, Tai Forest (formerly Ivory Coast), and Reston.

  • History of Public Speaking

    • Socrates (469-399 BCE) greatly influenced the direction of the Classical Period.
    • Cicero is most famous in the field of public speaking for creating the five canons of rhetoric, a five-step process for developing a persuasive speech that we still use to teach public speaking today.
    • Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) paid great attention to the idea of style by actually grouping style and delivery of the five canons together.
    • Neoclassicism revived the classical approach to rhetoric by adapting and applying it to contemporary situations.
    • The 1960's and 70's saw renewed emphasis and focus on the works of those from the Classical Period.

  • Aegina

    • The Temple of Aphaia on Aegina is an example of the stylistic changes between Archaic and Classical sculpture.
    • In this case there are five on each side, and each colonnade has two stories.
    • The dying warrior on the east pediment, sculpted just ten years later, in 480 BCE, is clearly carved in the new Classical style .
    • When we compare these two figures, the differences between the Archaic and Classical styles are evident.
    • While Classical sculpture is still stylized and idealistic, there is much more naturalism used, and the figures begin to react to their surroundings.

  • Classical Theme Types

  • Classical Conditioning in Behavioral Therapy

  • Classical Theory of Motivation

    • The classical theory of motivation includes the hierarchy of needs from Abraham Maslow and the two-factor theory from Frederick Herzberg.
    • Maslow developed the Hierarchy of Needs consistent of five hierarchical classes.

  • Classical Theory

    • Classical theory was the first modern school of economic thought.
    • During the period in which classical theory emerged, society was undergoing many changes.
    • Classical theory reoriented economics away from individual interests to national interests.
    • Flexible prices: classical economics assumes that prices are flexible for goods and wages.
    • Adam Smith was one of the individuals who helped establish classical economic theory.