What are the six ancient books

The Six Books in ancient times were the Classic of Poetry, the Book of Shang, the Rites of Passage, the Book of Music, the Zhou Yi, and the Spring and Autumn Annals. The Six Books also refer to the six ways of constructing Chinese characters, pictograms, references, ideograms, morpho-sounds, transcriptions, and pseudo-borrowings.

What are the six books in ancient times

The term six books out of the "Zhouli": "Paul's palm to advise the king of the evil, and the raising of the state son to the road, is to teach the six arts: one said the five rituals; two said the six music; three said the five shooting; four said the five harnesses; five said the six books; six said the nine counts;". Refers to the "Poetry Scripture", "Shangshu", "ritual", "music scripture", "Zhou Yi", "Spring and Autumn Annals".

At the same time, the six books also refer to the six methods of constructing Chinese characters, which are hieroglyphic, referential, huiyi, morphoacoustic, transcription, and pseudo-borrowing. The structure of Chinese characters is divided into two parts: the internal structure and the external structure. The internal structure refers to the method of constructing Chinese characters, or the method of creating characters, which is traditionally called the Six Books. Among them, pictograms and references are the "method of creating characters", huiyi and xingyi are the "method of organizing characters", and jinzhi and fudezhi are the "method of using characters".