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", "Shangshu", "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites", "Book of Music", and "Spring and Autumn".
1. "The Book of Changes"
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 "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 five thousand years of wisdom of the Chinese nation.
2. "Shangshu"
"Shangshu", the earliest book called "Shangshu", was written about the fifth century BC. The traditional "Shangshu" (also known as "Shangshu") "Wen Shangshu") was handed down by Fu Sheng. It is said to be a legacy of the ancient culture "Three Tombs and Five Codes".
"Shang Shu" is listed as one of the important core Confucian classics. "Shang" means "Shang". "Shangshu" is an ancient book. It is a collection of ancient Chinese historical documents and some works that recount ancient deeds. It is the earliest collection of historical documents in my country.
3. "The Book of Songs"
The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest poetry collection. It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th century BC to 6th century BC), with ***311 poems;
Six of them are Sheng poems, that is, they only have titles and no content, and are called the six Sheng poems ("Nanmei", "Baihua", "Huashui", "Yougeng", "Chongqiu", " "Yi"), reflecting the social outlook of about five hundred years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty
4. "Book of Rites"
"Book of Rites" is also known as "Xiao Dai". "Book of Rites" and "Book of Little Dai" were written in the Han Dynasty and compiled by Dai Shengsuo, a scholar of ritual in the Western Han Dynasty.
"Book of Rites" is an important anthology of laws and regulations in ancient China, ***II. There are forty-nine chapters in ten volumes. The content of the book is mainly about the ritual system of the Pre-Qin Dynasty. It embodies the philosophical thoughts, educational thoughts, political thoughts, and aesthetic thoughts of the Pre-Qin Confucians. It is an important material for the study of the Pre-Qin society and a compilation of Confucian thoughts. .
5. "Yue Jing"
"Yue Jing", one of the "Six Classics", namely "Book of Songs", "Shang Shu", and "Li". "The Book of Changes", "The Book of Changes", "The Book of Music", and "The Spring and Autumn Annals"
There is "The Book of Music" in the pre-Qin Dynasty.
6. "Chunqiu"
"Chunqiu" is the "Spring and Autumn Classic", also known as "Lin Jing" or "Lin Shi", etc., which is an ancient Chinese book. One of the "Six Classics" of Confucian classics, it is my country's first chronological history book and the national history of the state of Lu during the Zhou Dynasty. The existing version is said to have been revised by Confucius.
The Spring and Autumn Annals were used to record events. The language is extremely concise, but almost every sentence has a connotation of praise or criticism, which is called "Spring and Autumn Writing Style" and "Micro Words and Great Meanings" by later generations. Later, many books appeared that supplemented, explained, and elaborated on the history recorded in "Spring and Autumn". It is called "Zhuan". The representative works are "Zuo Zhuan", "Gongyang Zhuan" and "Gu Liang Zhuan", which are called "Three Biography of Spring and Autumn Period".
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