What do the six books refer to

The Six Books in ancient times were the Classic of Poetry, the Book of Shang, the Rites of Passage, the Scripture of Music, the Book of Changes, 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.

The term "six books" comes from the "Zhou Li": "Paul's palm to advise the king of the evil, and raise the state son to the road, is to teach 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."

Four Books and Five Classics:

Four Books and Five Classics refers to the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics" together, is the core books of Confucian scholars in the study of successive generations of Confucianism, in the traditional Chinese culture, the many Among the many literary works of traditional Chinese culture, the Four Books and Five Classics occupy a very important position. The Four Books and Five Classics recorded in detail the historical information on politics, military, diplomacy, culture and other aspects of China's early intellectual and cultural development, as well as the important ideas of Confucius and Mencius and other thinkers.

"The Four Books and Five Classics" recorded in detail the most active period in the history of Chinese intellectual and cultural development of the political, military, diplomatic, cultural and other aspects of the historical information and influence on Chinese culture for thousands of years of important philosophical ideas of Confucius and Mencius. In the past generations, the imperial examinations were held to select officials, and the questions in the examination papers were all from the Four Books and Five Classics, which shows the importance of the Four Books and Five Classics to the way of government and the way of dealing with people in the world. The Four Books and Five Classics have had an immeasurable impact on social norms, interpersonal communication, and social culture.