What are the six skills that the ancients said? What are the "six arts" in literature?

The six arts mentioned by the ancients: ceremony, music, shooting, imperial, writing and counting; The six arts in literature refer to The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Le Shu, Yijing and Chunqiu.

1, The Book of Songs

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of ancient Chinese poems, which collected poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), including ***3 1 1 first;

Six of them are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no contents, and they are collectively called six Sheng poems (Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Shu Hua, You Geng, Qiu Chong and You Yi), which reflect the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.

2. Shangshu

The earliest title of Shangshu was Shu, which was written in the first five centuries. The traditional Shangshu (also known as Jinwen Shangshu) was handed down by Fu Sheng. Legend is left over from the "Three Graves and Five Codes" of ancient culture.

3. Le Shu

The Historical Records of Rites and Music referred to by Le Shu is the first biographical general history of China. Its contents include: twelve biographies, ten tables, eight books, thirty books, seventy biographies and * * * one hundred and thirty articles, but some of them have been lost. What we are seeing now is the historical record of Le Shu, supplemented by later generations.

Although the content is different before and after, the musical thought is in the same strain as Sima Qian. Historical Records expounds the difference between "Li" and "Yue" and their social functions.

4. I ching

The Book of Changes is an ancient classic that expounds the changes of Vientiane in the world, and it is a profound dialectical philosophical work. Including Lianshan, Ghost Stories and Zhouyi, of which Lianshan and Ghost Stories have been lost, and only Zhouyi is left in the world.

The Book of Changes, known as the "source of all classics", is the general program of China traditional culture, which contains simple and profound natural laws and harmonious dialectical thoughts, and is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years.

5. Spring and Autumn Annals

The Spring and Autumn Annals, also known as Lin Jing or Lin Shi, is one of the six Confucian classics in ancient China. It is also the national history of Lu in the Zhou Dynasty, and the existing version was revised by Confucius.