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. Ritual 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, Book of History, Book of Songs, Book of Rites, Book of Music, and Spring and Autumn Annals.
The "Book of Changes" is an ancient classic that explains the changes in all phenomena in the world. It is a profound and profound dialectical philosophy book. It includes three Yi books, "Lianshan", "Guizang" and "Zhouyi". Among them, "Lianshan" and "Guizang" have been lost, and only the "Zhouyi" is extant. The "Book of Changes" is known as the first of all the classics and the source of the great truth. It is the general program of traditional Chinese culture. It contains simple and profound natural laws and harmonious dialectical thoughts. It is the crystallization of the five thousand years of wisdom of the Chinese nation.