The Western Zhou Dynasty maintained and strengthened the social hierarchical order through the system of rites and music, which was also reflected in the content of school education. In the Six Arts, calligraphy and numbers are basic knowledge, archery and bending are production and life skills, and etiquette and music are the core of education.

The educational characteristics of the Western Zhou Dynasty are "learning in officials" and "integration of officials and teachers". The government has mastered the right to education and the right to choose officials, which not only strengthens political rule, but also strengthens ideological rule.

Li Le: "You can't be polite to Shu Ren, and you can't punish the doctor." Although not absolute, it was the opposite in the Zhou Dynasty. Rites and music are originally "rites", just like offering food to ancestors with sacrificial vessels. This is the original meaning of ceremony, and later it became a tool to maintain the aristocratic hierarchy of slave owners. The content of ceremony is very extensive, except for various systems related to political punishment, which are mainly reflected in the five ceremonies of good luck, fierce, military, guest and kindness, that is, sacrifice, funeral, military ceremony, court alliance, wedding crown celebration and so on. Zhou people pay great attention to the difference between courtesy and propriety. Rites, complicated in content, are generally the criteria for people's actions; Instrument, and then all kinds of etiquette. Ceremony is the content of ceremony, and ceremony is the form of ceremony, which later became the only form. When the ritual system is implemented, there must be music and dance, and music and dance will perform different music in line with the ritual system with different ceremonies. Duke Zhou's rites and music reflected the civilization of the time and the characteristics of the times in the heyday of the Western Zhou Dynasty.