What does the traditional six books mean?

The traditional six books are The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Yili, Jing Yue, Zhouyi and Chunqiu.

At the same time, Liu Shu also mentioned six word-formation methods of Chinese characters, such as pictographic, fingering, knowing, pictophonetic, transliteration and borrowing. Among them, pictographic method, reference method and comprehension method mainly evolved according to the shape and meaning of things; Shape and sound are fonts made according to the shape and sound of things; Zhuan Zhu and Borrowing are new words created by metonymy and homonymy according to the existing characters.

The word "six books" comes from Zhou Li: "Bao Zhang remonstrates the evil of the king, while raising the son of the country with Tao is to teach six arts: one says five rites; Second, six music; Three shots and five shots; Four days and five days; Five words and six books; Six equals nine; " .

The six books of Chinese characters refer to six structural rules of Chinese characters, which are arranged by later generations according to the word formation of Chinese characters, rather than the word formation rules. Liu Shu is a system for later generations to analyze and summarize Chinese characters.

The six books roughly reflect people's understanding of the structure and use of Chinese characters from the end of the Warring States to the Han Dynasty and later generations. It is basically based on seal script, and it is a perfect and thorough law. Can fully explain Chinese characters, especially ancient Chinese characters. It plays an important guiding role in the evolution and development of Chinese characters. The theory of six characters is a great creation in the history of China's philology.