The Three Kingdoms is pretty well-known already, but aside from that, which ones are your favorite eras, whether due to their culture, history, etc?
Spring and Autumn
Warring States
Northern and Southern Dynasties
Sixteen Kingdoms
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Song Liao Jin Xia
Warlord Era
I'm very curious about what the oldest texts being taught in public schools all over the world are. And I'm talking about in their original texts. I know in the USA, the oldest text being taught in its original form is probably Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Beowulf is also taught, but not in its original text, rather in a translated version. I'm assuming the UK is the same.
In China, from what I hear, the oldest text being taught is Classics of Poetry (Shijing), with the earliest poems being dated to the 11th century BCE.
What about other countries such as Egypt, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Germany, UAE, Persia, Japan, Korea, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, etc.?
I'll even accept texts being taught in their transliterated versions. What I mean is texts being rewritten as how they're written in another writing system. An example would be Vietnam, which teaches Vietnamese poetry originally written in Nôm script, but is now transliterated into the Latin alphabet. The language itself is still the same and remains untranslated, just in a different script.