What does six arts mean?

Six arts are six basic abilities that students are required to master, namely, etiquette, music, archery, imperial examination, calligraphy and arithmetic, namely, etiquette, music, archery and horseback riding, horse riding, calligraphy and arithmetic. The ancient six arts refer to: ritual, music, shooting, imperial, writing and counting. 1, ceremony refers to etiquette, and there were five ceremonies in ancient times. The five rituals are: the ritual is auspicious, the mourning is fierce, the army is martial, the guest is the guest, and the marriage is the ritual. 2. Music refers to music. In ancient times, there were six kinds of music, also called "six songs" and "six dances", which were music and dances of six generations. According to "Zhou Li Da Le Si", six sets of music and dance are Yunmen Dajuan, Daxian, Shaoshao, Daxia, Daxie and Dawu. 3. Shooting refers to the skill of archery. In ancient times, there was a saying of five shots. Five shots refer to white arrows, ginseng, strokes, pocket rulers and well instruments. White arrow, the arrow penetrates the target and the arrow is white, indicating that the arrow is accurate and powerful; Join the company, put a vector in front, and the last three vectors go away one after another. If the beads are in the same position, the vectors belong to each other; Note that it is the disease of vector line; Lord Xiang, I will shoot with you, not with you, and let you retreat one foot; Good instrument, four vectors are consistent, all hit the target. 4, driving skills, there are five emperors in ancient times, the five emperors refer to: singing Luan, chasing water songs, crossing the table of the monarch, dancing and making friends, chasing birds left. 5. Books refer to calligraphy (writing, literacy and composition). There are six books in ancient times, which refer to pictographs, objects, knowledge, pictophonetic characters, transliteration and borrowing. 6. Numbers mean rational numbers and vital numbers. There are nine books in ancient times. Zhou Li did not list the details of the "nine figures". In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zheng Xuan quoted Zheng Sinong in his Notes on Zhou Li Local Officials: "Nine numbers: Fang Tian, Su, Difference, Shao Guang, Shang Gong, Lian Loss, Equation, Insufficient Victory, Secondary; There are differences, embarrassment and stocks today. " 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": "Cultivating the country by Tao is to teach six arts: 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 "Six Arts" of "Five Classics and Six Arts".