Six arts refer to six skills in the aristocratic education system of China in the Zhou Dynasty, namely, etiquette, music, shooting, bending, calligraphy and arithmetic. The aristocratic education system in the Zhou Dynasty in China began in the Zhou Dynasty in BC 1046, which required students to master six basic talents.
From "Zhou Li Local Official Situbao": "Cultivate the country and teach the Tao. It is to teach six arts: one is five rites, the other is six music, the third is five shots, the fourth is five emperors, the fifth is six books, and the sixth is nine numbers. " This is the "Six Arts" of "Five Classics and Six Arts".
Salute:
Shooting is one of the six great arts in ancient China. There is a saying in an ancient book: a gentleman can defeat the enemy without fighting, and it is a gentleman to climb up and drink. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, with the infiltration of Confucianism and the improvement of etiquette system, the institutionalization of five rites (auspicious, fierce, guest, military and meticulous) has been established, which is an important process in the history of etiquette system, and its maturity is marked by the promulgation of Tang Kaiyuan Rites in the twentieth year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (732).
Shooting ceremony is one of the important forms of Chinese etiquette culture. The main content is that the guest and the host bow down, the company shoots well and balances, and announces the order of throwing pots (rules), which mainly includes: the arrow must be thrown into the pot to be shot; Need to vote in turn, the investment of the first investor in a row is not scored; If you hit the winner, you will punish the winner for drinking and so on.
At this time, the secretary attended the class, bowed to the guests and told them: "Three-seat shooting", and the guests bowed back. Shooting ceremony emphasizes moral integrity, harmony of ceremony and music. Advocate personality shaping and human spiritual civilization, pay attention to modesty, comity and solemnity in shooting ceremony, advocate "if you make a mistake, you can ask for more happiness" and attach importance to people's moral introspection. In essence, it is a clever way to guide health and morality, and it is a valuable achievement of Chinese ancestors' humanistic practice of combining virtue with shooting, courtesy with shooting, and teaching with shooting.
Royal:
Royal Chinese characters are the first-class universal norms of Chinese. Yu and its traditional Chinese character "Yu" are originally two words. "Yu" first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, and the ancient glyph image held a strategic position in Tao, which meant that it could be controlled. In ancient books, metaphor refers to driving a horse. By extension, it refers to the person who controls the horses and chariots. Empire also means controlling everything.
In addition, from the original meaning, there is also the meaning of governance and rule. Because the emperor is inseparable from the leadership of the horse, the meaning extends to the affairs related to the emperor. Imperial is also one of the six ancient arts, which refers to the technology of driving. The ancient word "Yu" was also found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. Its original meaning refers to a sacrifice to ward off evil spirits, and it also means defense and resistance. "Yu" and "Yu" are common in ancient books, and "Yu" was later simplified as "Yu".
Books:
Shu (Pinyin: sh) is a first-class character of Chinese general specification. It was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. The original meaning is a verb, indicating writing and description; Later, it was extended to nouns, referring to simplified books, classics, documents, letters and so on.