The content of education in the pre-Qin era is mainly based on six arts, including ritual, music, shooting, imperial, calligraphy and number. The aristocratic education system in the Zhou Dynasty in China began in the Zhou Dynasty in BC 1046, which required students to master six basic talents: etiquette, music, archery, bending, calligraphy and mathematics.

From "Zhou Li Local Official Situbao": "Cultivate the country and teach the Tao. It is to teach six arts: one is five rites, the other is six music, the third is five shots, the fourth is five emperors, the fifth is six books, and the sixth is nine numbers. " This is the "Six Arts" of "Five Classics and Six Arts". Historical Records Biography of Taishigong: "Confucian scholars take six arts as the law. There are tens of millions of classics of the Six Arts, and we can't finish learning them, and we can't learn their manners in those days, so we say,' Be knowledgeable but want less, but do little.' "