"Six Arts" comes from "Local Official Situbao": "Cultivating the country and teaching 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". At that time, the children of ordinary people only gave the education of "small art", and only the children of nobles could receive the complete education of "six arts" and complete the systematic process from "small art" to "big art"
If you don't learn "Li", Li can't stand. "Guanzi Herdsmen" said that "the granary actually knows etiquette, and you will know honor and disgrace when you have enough to eat and wear warm clothes". Folk weddings, funerals, enrollment, apprentices and sacrifices have been officials of rites and music since ancient times. In ancient times, the official offices were located in Taichang Temple, Temple Sacrifice Office and other etiquette offices, and there were etiquette officials such as Zhu, Lang and so on.
When there is a ceremony, there must be a banquet to celebrate the face, and when there is a banquet to celebrate the face, there must be a accompaniment by the merchants of Wuyin Palace. The ancient government set up a music official to be responsible for celebrating the banquet in the palace. According to historical records, Confucius mainly had three teachers. According to legend, he once "asked Lao Dan for gifts, learned music from Changhong, and learned piano from teachers".
Shooting is one of the six ancient arts in China. Confucius said in the Analects of Confucius: "A gentleman who defeats a soldier without fighting is a gentleman who climbs up and drinks." Therefore, "shooting" is not only a technique of killing the enemy to protect the family, but also a sport of self-cultivation.
The scope of "defense" is driving, but whether it is modern or ancient, it includes "driving" of transportation and "driving" of politics, leadership and management. In ancient China, the skill of control was not only a kind of courage, but also a kind of wisdom, including the comprehensive optimization of a problem in operational research, control and leadership.
Books, as the name implies, are the art of calligraphy and painting. It is wrong to count painting and calligraphy as a skill. China's calligraphy and painting is not only an elegant skill, but also a tool and magic weapon for self-cultivation.
Number, namely mathematical number, has been extended to "mathematical chemistry" in modern times. The development of ancient mathematics in China has a long history, and the formation of ancient mathematics system in China is marked by the appearance of nine chapters of arithmetic in Han Dynasty.