What is the meaning of "Yu" in the ancient six arts "Li, Yue, Shooting, Yu, Shu and Shu"?

Refers to the skill of driving carriages and chariots.

Five royal: singing Luan, chasing water songs, crossing the king's table, dancing across the street, chasing birds left.

Zhou Li Local Officials and Bao's: "This is the six arts of teaching ... four words and five controls." Zheng Xuan's note: "Five controls: singing and falling in love, chasing water, crossing the princess table, dancing and crossing the street, chasing birds to the left." It means that when driving, the corresponding sound is Luan; The car galloped with a curved bank without falling into the water; After the son of heaven appeared, there was etiquette; Free driving through the waterway; When hunting, the chasing animals were shot from the left.

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Other five arts.

1, ceremony: ceremony. Five gifts: Meng Li, military commander Li,,.

2, music: it is six music. Six Music: It refers to six sets of music and dance: Yunmen Dajuan, Xianchi, Dashao, Daxia, Dayun and Dawu. As early as in ancient times

3, shooting: military archery technology five shots: white arrow, joint, brush note, ruler, well instrument. 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; A ruler, I shoot with you, I stand side by side with you, and let you back a foot; Good instrument, four vectors are consistent, all hit the target.

4. Books: six books of calligraphy (writing, literacy and writing) (Zhou Li didn't explain them, and later generations may guess): pictographs, fingering, knowing, pictophonetic characters, annotations and borrowing. (Note: seal script and borrowing are literacy methods, while pictographic characters, ideographic characters, knowing characters and pictophonetic characters are word-making methods, of which pictophonetic characters account for about 90%. )

5. Numbering: Numbering, also called magic number, is a skill of calculation and mathematics. Arithmetic has nine chapters.

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