1. Six skills: courtesy, music, shooting, defense, calligraphy and number.
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: etiquette, music, archery, bending, calligraphy and mathematics. From "Bao's Family in Zhou Li": "The six techniques of raising the country by Tao: one is five rituals, the other is six music, the third is five shots, the fourth is five emperors' rituals, the fifth is six books, and the sixth is nine numbers." This is the so-called "Six Arts" of "Five Classics and Six Arts".
2. Refers to the Six Classics: Yi, Shu, Shi, Li, Yue, Chun Qiu.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius also taught six arts in private schools, but these six arts are the six Confucian classics, called Yi, Shu, Shi, Li, Yue and Chun Qiu.