On the basis of inheriting the education system of Shang Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty established a typical classical education official school system with the integration of politics and religion, and formed the advanced six arts education at that time. The official credits of the Western Zhou Dynasty are Chinese studies and rural studies: Chinese studies are specially set up for aristocratic children, located in the capital and vassal States. Township schools are set up according to local administrative regions, aiming at the children of local ordinary aristocrats and the children of gentlemen and township officials who retired to townships. The content of the education of Chinese studies in the Western Zhou Dynasty is centered on rites and music, supplemented by the education of archery, imperial art, calligraphy and mathematics. Ethics is an education about politics, patriarchal clan system, ethics and etiquette, which occupies a core position in the education of six arts.

Music education mainly studies the knowledge of religious sacrifice music and dance, including six aspects, such as neutralization and filial piety, and the core is to publicize the concept of hierarchy. Archery is a comprehensive education. Including the cultivation of moral sentiment, inner ambition and skills. At that time, archery was the most important thing, and the level of archery was often regarded as the standard of reward and promotion for scholars. The number of books is about reading, writing and arithmetic. The six arts education is characterized by learning in the government, the integration of officials and teachers, and the combination of teachers and teachers to teach, ruling the country and leveling the world. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the feudal economy continued to develop, and the influence of the Zhou royal family gradually declined, resulting in the collapse of rites and bad music. With the rise of free lectures in private schools, aristocratic official schools have declined since then, and a great change in ancient education in China is coming.