During the Chou Dinasty

• The Book of Songs is one of the oldest collection of chinese poetry and is considered a model of poetic impression and moral insight.

  Its Chinese term is Shih Ching
• Parable of the Ancient Philosophers - illustrates taois belief and humanism of chinese thought
• The T'ang Poets was inspired by seems of natural beauty, wrote about fragilled blossoms in spring, falling of leaves in autumn and changing shape of moon.
• Confucius - China's most famous teacher, philosopher and political theorist whos ideas have influenced all civilizations of east asia. He made Confucianism that provides Chinese both moral order and an order for the universe.
• Analects - its chinese name is Lun You. It is one of the first book of confucian text. Sayings range fromm brief statements to more extended dialogs between confucius and his students. Unselfishness, courage and honor is an ideal of universal moral and social harmony.
• The Book of Changes - I ching is its chinese name. It is one of the 6 classics of confucian philosophy, and has been primarily used for divination. This book is based on the concept of Change (the one constant of the universe).
• Lao Tzu - also known as the old philosopher, founder of taoism
• Taoism - the tao (the way the natural coarse that the world follows)

  To go with the flow is wisdom and hapiness
• Tao-Te ching - classic of the way of power and points out, do nothing and everything else is done. It implies spontaneity, non interperence and letting things take their natural coarse.