Six Classics refers to poetry, calligraphy, ceremony, change, music, spring and autumn, which was first seen in Zhuangzi and Tian Yun. It refers to the six pre-Qin books compiled and taught by Confucius. The full names of these six classic works are The Book of Songs, The Book of Songs (Shangshu), Yili, Yijing (Zhouyi), Jing Yue and Chunqiu.
Book of rites The role of the Six Classics is mentioned in the explanation: Confucius said: When you enter a country, you can know its teachings. He is also a human being, gentle and honest, and teaches poetry. If you are far away, you will learn from books. Be broad and easy to be good, and teach it with joy. Quiet and reserved, easy to teach. Zhuang Jing, ethical Gong Jian also. It is a rhetorical matter, and it was also taught in the Spring and Autumn Period. Therefore, the loss of poetry is stupid. The loss of books, fake. Lose happiness, luxury. Easy to lose, thief.
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The relationship between Six Arts and Six Classics, when people in the Han Dynasty used the concepts of poetry, calligraphy, ceremony, music, Yi, Spring and Autumn, sometimes from the perspective of curriculum, and sometimes from the perspective of textbooks. As for why there are two different views on the Six Arts: Ritual, Music, Shooting, Imperial, Calligraphy, Numbers and Poetry, Calligraphy, Ritual, Music, Yi, Spring and Autumn, this is related to a revolution in the history of education in China.
The term "Six Arts" first appeared in the chapter of "Local Officials" in Zhou Li, and originally referred to six courses, namely etiquette, music, archery, imperial examination, calligraphy and mathematics, used by the aristocratic society in the Zhou Dynasty to "cultivate warriors".
In addition to the six arts courses for cultivating samurai, the Zhou Dynasty also had a curriculum system with various historical documents as teaching materials for the purpose of cultivating senior political talents. The setting of this curriculum system may be inconsistent in different vassal countries or even in the same country.