This volume is compiled for the students of Grade 5 in the primary school. This book selects 79 classics about Chinese culture, historical allusion, cultural customs and the hundred schools of thought, which can make students enter in the world of the ancient people and learn their elegant and concise expressions. Students can learn different writing techniques, such as narration, description, exposition and argumentation, through reading interesting short stories; learn how to be a good person and how to think through reading the classics of ancient philosophers and authors; learn the ancient people's insight of the environment, awe of the nature and thought of the life.