Etiquette, music, archery, imperial examination, calligraphy, mathematics and other education originated in the Xia Dynasty and developed in the Shang Dynasty, which made it more developed and enriched in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Xia, Shang and Zhou belong to slave society.
basic concept
Rites and music shoot, books count. Six arts: refers to six talents and skills: courtesy, music, shooting, defense, calligraphy and mathematics. Etiquette, music and dance, archery, driving, calligraphy and arithmetic, among which archery and driving (chariot and driving) are military skills. It is the six skills that ancient scholars must learn. With the continuous development of society, there are more and more categories of culture and technology. But for modern students, it is necessary to be a person with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.
ceremony
The five rites in the six arts of a gentleman are:, fierce ceremony, martial ceremony,,. The Zhou Dynasty paid attention to "ruling the country by courtesy", and etiquette was a very important system. There is a complete set of procedures and etiquette in the national ancestral temple sacrifice, and the court has set up departments and official positions responsible for etiquette.
Ceremony has become a national system and discipline, and it has also become a ritual system. "Zhou" not only stipulated national etiquette and ancestor worship etiquette, but also formulated a set of fixed procedures and etiquette for people's daily life, such as marriage, funeral, admission, hospitality, and teacher worship. Over time, this has become the code of conduct for ordinary people in their daily lives.
happy
Six kinds of music in the six arts of gentlemen refer to six sets of music and dance, namely: Yunmen Dajuan, Xianchi, Dashao, Daxie and Dawu. Music is an extension of the ceremony, because there should be music and dance that exaggerates the atmosphere in the sacrificial activities, such as: Cloud Gate scrolls are used to worship the gods; Sacrifice to the god of the earth in the fairy pool;
Look around at the big sacrifices; Sacrifice mountains and rivers in summer; Jiang Yuan, the ancestor of Zhou Dynasty, was sacrificed by Dayun. Dawu worships ancestor Zhou. When holding sacrificial activities, people use these six sets of music and dance to express their piety.
shoot
The five shots in the six arts of gentlemen refer to: white arrows, ginseng, brush notes, rulers and utensils. These are five different archery methods, in which the white arrow means that the arrow penetrates the target, and the arrow is white, indicating that the bow and arrow is strong; "Continuous shooting" means putting one arrow in front and three arrows in a row, just like gobang, which means that the continuous shooting speed is very fast;
Swish note refers to rapid shooting, that is, the aiming time is very short, and the arrow will be shot and hit the target immediately when it is placed on the string; "Stalemate" refers to the etiquette of shooting with the monarch, and the minister stands side by side with the monarch, letting him retreat one foot. "Well gauge" refers to four consecutive arrows hitting the bull's-eye, which requires a very high hit rate.