What are the six traditional arts in ancient China?

Ritual, Music, Shooting, Imperial, Writing and Counting

1. Etiquette: Etiquette, including * * * the same ideological and behavioral norms, just like moral education today. The Book of Rites can be divided into five rites, namely, fierce Li, martial Li, and.

2. Music: mainly refers to skills in music, dance and poetry. In ancient China, these three things were inseparable, and they were all used for the sacrifice or enjoyment of the aristocratic class.

3. Shooting: refers to archery. In ancient China, there was also the saying of "Five Shoots", namely "White Arrow, Ginseng, Brush Note (homophonic with" Mask "), Ruler and Instrument", which respectively represented the five realms of archers.

4. Imperial: refers to riding, mainly refers to riding, and also includes chariots or other weapons in the military. "Jade" also has the saying of "five jade", namely: singing and making love, chasing water songs, crossing the gentleman's table, dancing and making friends, chasing birds left.

5. Book: refers to calligraphy, including word recognition, writing, composition and explanation. From the whole learning process, it can be divided into "six books", namely, "pictograph, finger-pointing, knowing, pictophonetic characters, phonetic notation, phonetic notation and borrowing".

6. Number: refers to rational number and qi number (the law of usage), that is, the movement law of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. Guangya: "Number, skill also." That is, technology, methods and skills.