1, the first statement

In ancient China, Confucianism required students to master six basic talents, including courtesy, music, shooting, command, calligraphy and numeracy. Ceremony is etiquette, music is music, shooting is riding skill, royal is driving a carriage skill, books are calligraphy, and numbers count.

Rites: including politics, morality, patriotism, behavior habits and so on.

Music: including music, dance, poetry, etc.

Shooting: it is the training of archery skills.

Royal: It's the cultivation of driving chariot technology.

Book: It is literacy education.

Number: including the teaching of natural science and technology such as mathematics and religious technology.

"Six Arts" education is characterized by paying equal attention to both arts and culture, seeking knowledge and ability, and paying attention to age differences and subject levels, so education is different. Among the "six arts", etiquette, music, archery and imperial art are called "great arts", which are necessary knowledge for nobles to enter politics. Books and figures are called "small art", which are daily needs of people's livelihood and compulsory courses in primary schools.

2. The second statement

There is another saying that the Six Arts are interpreted as the Six Classics, namely, The Book of Changes, Shangshu, The Book of Songs, The Book of Rites, Jing Yue and Chunqiu. The Five Classics refer to The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu, which are referred to as "Poems, Books, Rites, Changes and Chunqiu" for short. Before that, there was a Book of Music called Poems, Books, Rites, Music, Change and Spring and Autumn, and these six books were also called Poems, Books, Change and Spring and Autumn.