By the mid-Song, however, the Analects, Mencius, Great Learning, and Doctrine of the Mean began gaining importance and by the early fourteenth century, the Four Book were the texts for the civil examinations. In the early Song, however, scholars focused on the original Five Classics again. From the Han to the early Song, the Five Classics grew into thirteen classics. The Four Books are comprised of the Doctrine of the Mean, the Great Learning, Mencius, and the Analects. The Five Classics consists of the Book of Odes, Book of Documents, Book of Changes, Book of Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Annals.
The Five Classics and Four Books were the basis of the civil examination in imperial China and can be considered the Confucian canon. The Five Classics (wujing) and Four Books (si shu) collectively create the foundation of Confucianism.
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