What are the six arts of "Rite, Music, Shooting, Imperial, Calligraphy and Numbering"?

1, courtesy refers to etiquette (similar to moral education today). Five rites, auspicious, fierce, guest, army and Jia also.

2. Music refers to music. Six kinds of music: Cloud Gate, Daxian, Dashao, Daxia, Daxie and Dawu.

3. Shooting and archery techniques. These five shooting methods are: white arrow, joint, injection, ruler and well instrument.

4. The technology of riding a carriage with imperial fingers.

5. Books refer to the six books of calligraphy (writing, literacy and composition): pictographic, indicative, knowing, pictophonetic, transliteration and borrowing.

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

Extended data:

"Six Arts" education is characterized by paying equal attention to both arts and culture, seeking knowledge and ability, and paying attention to age differences and subject levels, so education is different. Among the "six arts", etiquette, music, archery and bending are called "great arts", which are necessary knowledge for nobles to enter politics. Books and figures are called "small art", which are daily needs of people's livelihood and compulsory courses in primary schools.

At that time, the children of ordinary people were only given the education of "small arts", and only the children of nobles could receive the complete education of "six arts" and complete the systematic process from "small arts" to "big arts". "Six Arts" serves the needs of the class, but it also reflects the universal law of education and has a far-reaching impact on future generations.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Liu Yi