Rites, music, shooting, imperial, calligraphy and numbers are the educational contents of China in the ancient Western Zhou Dynasty. Ritual, music, shooting, imperial, calligraphy and mathematics are called six arts, which originated from Gemmology and refer to the six basic talents that students are required to master in Guanxue.

The origin of six arts

The six arts are from Zhou Li Bao's. The original text is as follows: "To educate the country by Tao is to teach the 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."

Among them, etiquette refers to etiquette (similar to moral education today). Five rites, auspicious, fierce, guest, army and Jia also. Music means music. Liu Le

Yunmen, Daxian, Dashao, Daxia, Daxie, Dawu and other ancient music. Finger shooting and archery. Five shooting techniques are: white arrow, joint, injection, ruler and well instrument. The technique of riding a carriage with imperial fingers.

Books refer to six books of calligraphy (writing, literacy and composition): pictographs.

, refers to things, knowledge, pictophonetic characters, diversion, borrowing. Number: number refers to rational number and qi number (the law of usage), that is, the movement law of yin and yang and five elements. Guangya: "Number, skill also." That is, technology, methods and skills.