What are the six arts of Confucianism in China?

Six basic talents that ancient Chinese Confucianism requires students to master: ritual, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics. From the "Zhou Li?6?1 Paul's": "Raise the state son to the road, is taught the six arts: one said five rituals, two said six music, three said five shooting, four said five harness, five said six books, six said nine numbers."

Ritual: etiquette (i.e., today's moral education) music: music archery: archery technology (forging chain of physical, character cultivation)

Royal: driving a carriage technology

Shu: calligraphy (i.e., today's literature)

Number: algorithms (i.e., today's mathematics)

Confucius six classic

That is, the "Yi," "Book," "Poetry", "Rites," "Music," "Spring and Autumn Period The doctrines of the

The Six Books of Chinese Characters

These refer to the six methods of character creation in Chinese characters: hieroglyphic, referential, huiyi, transcription, pseudo-borrowing, and shaped sound.

1, the Eastern Han Ban Zhou "Han Shu?6?1 Arts and Letters Zhi": "Ancient eight years old into elementary school, so the Zhou official Bao's in charge of raising the state son, teaching the six books, said the elephant shape \ like things \ like the meaning of \ like the sound of the sound of the \ transcription \ False Borrowing, the creation of the character of the original also."

2, Zheng Zhong in the "Zhouli?6?1 Bao's" note to the six books as "pictorial \ will mean \ transcription \ processing \ false borrowing \ harmonic."

3, Xu Shen made a more detailed explanation of the six books: "Zhou Li: eight years old into elementary school, Bao's teach the state son, first with six books. One said that the finger thing. Pointing to things, see and recognizable, and see the meaning, up and down is also. Second, said the image. Pictograms, painted into their objects, with the body stuttering, the sun and the moon is also. Third, the sound. Form and sound, the name of the matter, take the example of the same, the river is also. Fourth, the will. Willingness, than class and friendship, in order to see the finger pseudo, wu xin is also. Five said that the note. The note, build a class, agree to accept each other, Kao Lao is also. Sixth, false borrowing. False borrowing, there is no word, according to the sound of things, make long is also."

Six fonts

Wang Mang six fonts.

That is, Guwen (the script that prevailed in the six states during the Warring States period), Qizhi, Seal Script, Zuoshu, Miu Seal Script, and Bird and Insect Script

The Six Arts of the Poetry Scripture

The so-called "Six Arts" of the Poetry Scripture refer to the winds, elegance, ode, fugue, comparison, and rise.

"Zhou Li - Chunguan masters": "teach six poems: said wind, said fugue, said than, said Xing, said elegant, said Ode". Xing, first said other things to cause the words also. Zhu Xi "poetry collection - Guan Ju note"