What do the six arts refer to in ancient times, the four books, the five sutras and the six arts, the six arts of scripture and biography, the six arts of cultivation

There are two ways of saying the six arts. One is that there are six basic talents that ancient Chinese Confucianism requires students to master, including ritual, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics. Ritual is etiquette, music is music, archery is the skill of shooting and riding, wu is the skill of driving a carriage, shu is calligraphy, and numeracy is counting.

Another theory explains the Six Arts as the Six Classics, namely the I Ching, the Shang Shu, the Poetry, the Rites, the Music, and the Spring and Autumn Annals.

1. The I Ching

The I Ching is an ancient classic expounding on the world of heaven and earth about the changes of all phenomena, and is a profound book of dialectical philosophy. It consists of three books: Lianshan, Guizang, and Zhouyi, of which Lianshan and Guizang have been lost, and only Zhouyi survives.

The I Ching, known as the "source of the great way", is the general program of traditional Chinese culture, which contains simple and profound natural laws and harmonious and discriminative thoughts, and is the crystallization of 5,000 years of wisdom of the Chinese nation.

2, "Shangshu"

"Shangshu", the earliest book title for the "book", about the book in the first five centuries, the traditional "Shangshu" (also known as the "present Shangshu") by the Fusheng passed down. Legend has it that it is a leftover work from the ancient culture of the Three Graves and Five Classics.

The Shangshu is listed as one of the important core Confucian classics, "Shang" means "on", "Shangshu" is the book of the ancient times, which is a compilation of Chinese historical documents of the ancient times and some of the writings tracing back to the ancient deeds of the past. It is the earliest compilation of historical documents in China.

3, "Shijing"

"Shijing", is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry, the earliest of a general collection of poetry, a collection of poetry from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (the first 11th century to the first 6 centuries), *** 311;

6 of them for the pith poem, that is, only the title, not the content, known as pith poem six (the "South New", "Baihua", "Huabu", Geng", "Chongqiu", and "Yuyi"), reflecting the social landscape of the early Zhou to the late Zhou period of about five hundred years.

4. The Book of Rites

The Book of Rites, also known as Xiaodai Rites and Xiaodai Ji, was written in the Han Dynasty and compiled by Dai Sheng, a ritualist of the Western Han Dynasty.

The Book of Rites is an important anthology of canonical systems in ancient China,*** twenty volumes and forty-nine articles.The contents of the book are mainly written about the rites system of the pre-Qin Dynasty, which embodies the philosophical, educational, political, and aesthetic thoughts of pre-Qin Confucianism.

5, "Le Jing"

"Le Jing", the name of the book, one of the "Six Classics". The Six Classics, i.e., the Book of Poetry, the Book of Shang, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes, the Book of Music, and the Spring and Autumn Annals.

The pre-Qin period has a "music scripture" survives. This statement is not only found in the transmitted literature "Zhuangzi - the world" chapter, from the GuoDian ChuJian is also confirmed.

6, "Spring and Autumn Annals"

"Spring and Autumn Annals", "Spring and Autumn Annals", also known as "Lin Jing" or "Lin Shi", etc., is one of the ancient Chinese Confucian canonical books "Six Classics", is China's first chronicle of the history of the State of Lu, the state history of the Zhou Dynasty, the extant version of which is said to have been revised by Confucius.

The Spring and Autumn Annals is extremely concise in its language, but almost every sentence contains a complimentary or negative connotation, which has been referred to by later generations as the "Spring and Autumn Writing Style" and the "Subtle Speech". Later on, there appeared many books that supplemented, explained, and expounded the history recorded in the Spring and Autumn Annals, which were called "Chuan" (传). The representative works are Zuo Zhuan, Gongyang Zhuan, and Gu Liang Zhuan, which are called the "three biographies of the Spring and Autumn Annals".

Baidu Encyclopedia - The Four Books, the Five Classics, and the Six Arts