Western Saturday Art refers to six skills: etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. Li refers to etiquette, a bit like moral education; Le refers to music, and learning piano is popular nowadays, which can probably be regarded as education in music; Shooting refers to archery, which has disappeared in today’s society; Yu refers to driving, and nowadays, it means taking a driving test Certificate; books, that is, literature, calligraphy, etc., including reading and writing skills; knowledge of numbers, arithmetic and number theory.
Etiquette: Etiquette. There are five etiquettes, namely auspicious etiquette, unlucky etiquette, military etiquette, guest etiquette, and honorable etiquette.
Le: It is the six pleasures. Six music: refers to the six music and dance sets of "Yunmen Dajuan", "Xianchi", "Dashao", "Daxia", "Dayi" and "Dawu". The earliest ceremonial music and dance in ancient times is "Yunmen Dajuan". There was "Xianchi" in Yao's time. In the time of Shun, there was "Da Shao". Confucius claimed that he had heard Shao music and praised it highly, saying that the music and dance were perfect.
Yu Shi published "Da Xia". There was "Da Yi" in the Shang Dynasty. There was "Dawu" in Zhou Dynasty. These are all famous ceremonial music and dances in ancient times. In the Zhou Dynasty, these six sets of music and dance were completely preserved and became the Six Music, which were used in major sacrificial activities: "Yunmen Dajuan" was used to worship the gods; "Xianchi" was used to worship the earth gods; "Da Shao" was used to worship Siwang. "Daxia" offers sacrifices to mountains and rivers; "Dayi" offers sacrifices to Jiang Yuan, the founder of the Zhou Dynasty; "Dawu" offers sacrifices to ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty. Among the six kinds of music that were passed down to the Han Dynasty, there were only two, namely "Da Shao" and "Da Wu".
Archery: Military archery technology.
Yu: The skill of driving chariots and chariots
Books: calligraphy (writing, literacy, writing) Six books (Zhou Li did not explain it, but later generations may speculate): pictograms , refers to things, understands, phonetic, transfers, and borrows. (Note: Annotations and borrowings are ways to recognize characters, while pictograms, meanings, meanings, and pictophones are ways to create characters, of which pictophonetic characters account for about 90%.)
Numerology: Numbers are also called techniques. Number is the technology of calculation and mathematics. There are nine chapters on arithmetic.