Music is divided into six kinds of ancient music: Cloud Gate, Daxian, Dashao, Daxia, Daxie and Dawu, which are respectively used for major sacrificial activities. Cloud Gate is used to worship the gods, mostly around the sky, mountains and rivers in summer, Jiang Yuan, the ancestor of Tianzhou, and Dawu, the ancestor of Tianzhou. Six kinds of music spread to the Han Dynasty, only two kinds of music were Da Shao and Da Wu.
"Dance" belongs to music education. Students dance spoons at the age of thirteen, elephants at the age of fifteen and summer dances at the age of twenty. Spoon, elephant and summer are all names of dance. Spoon is a kind of literary dance, which uses light objects such as bare hands or feathers. Elephant, mansion, martial arts, etc. They are all martial arts dances, which refer to holding weapons such as shields and swords, stabbing and other actions, symbolizing the battle plot.
Ancient music and dance performances were different from the present, and the hierarchy was very strict, just like ballet was once a court dance.
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The other five arts
Ceremony: etiquette (that is, today's moral education) five ceremonies: auspicious ceremony, fierce ceremony, military ceremony, guest ceremony and ceremony;
Shooting: archery skills five shots: white arrow, joint, stroke, ruler, well instrument;
Royal: The five royal techniques of driving a carriage are: singing Luan, chasing water songs, crossing the table of the monarch, dancing across the road and chasing birds to the left;
Books: six books of calligraphy (writing, literacy and writing): pictographic characters, fingering, knowing, pictophonetic characters, transliteration and borrowing;
Number: algorithm (counting) Nine numbers is a multiplication table of nine, which is a math textbook of ancient schools.
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