What are the Four Books, Five Classics and Six Arts?

The Four Books, the Five Classics and the Six Arts, the Four Books refer to the "Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "The Analects" and "Mencius"; It is called "Poetry, Book, Rites, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Period" for short. In fact, there should have been six classics and one "Yue Jing", collectively called "Poetry, Book, Rites, Music, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Period", but it later died in the Qin Dynasty. At the end of the war, only the Five Classics remained.

There are two ways to describe the Six Arts. One is that ancient Chinese Confucianism requires students to master six basic talents, including etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics.

Etiquette refers to etiquette, music refers to music, shooting refers to the skill of shooting and riding, chariot refers to the skill of driving a carriage, writing refers to calligraphy, and counting refers to arithmetic.

There is also a theory that interprets the Six Arts as the Six Classics, namely the "Book of Changes", "Shangshu", "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites", "Book of Music" and "Spring and Autumn".