"History of Guan Bao in the land of Li Zhou" states: "Bao's family remonstrated against Wang's evil, while the country that raised children taught six arts. One said five rites, two said six music, three said five shots, four said five controls, five said six books, six said nine numbers. "
"Historical Records Funny Biography" contains: "Confucius said:' Six arts are waiting for one. Ceremony is to save people, music is to make peace, books are things, poetry is to express aspirations, Book of Changes is deified, and Spring and Autumn Annals is morality. " "
Specific subdivision
These five ceremonies include,, fierce Li, and military commander Li. Six kinds of music include music and dance in six different times, such as Yunmen, Daxian, Shaoshao, Daxia, Daxie and Dawu. Five shots are white arrows, joints, injections, rulers and well instruments.
Five royal driving techniques, such as singing and making love, chasing water songs, crossing the king's table, dancing and crossing the street, chasing birds to the left, and driving etiquette on different occasions; Six books are six ways of word formation and word use, such as pictographic, fingering, knowing, pictophonetic, annotation and borrowing. Nine numbers are nine kinds of calculation skills, such as square field, millet, difference, sparsity, width, quotient power, even loss, equation, insufficient victory and secondary importance.
Music, that is, it is a master of Confucian music theory. This book is Historical Records, a compilation of China's ancient historical documents and some articles describing ancient deeds.
The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in ancient China. The Book of Changes, also known as the Book of Changes, was handed down by Zhou people, hence its name. The Book of Changes is divided into Classic and Biography, which is rich in dialectics and aesthetic thoughts. Among them, the view of "image" and the relationship between "image" and "meaning" have great influence on future generations. The theory of "towards the stars" and "artistic conception" can be traced back to this.
Spring and Autumn Annals is a history book, which is said to have been written by Confucius. The Spring and Autumn Annals is concise and contains a little meaning in its notes. Later generations called the technique of implicit praise and criticism in narrative "Spring and Autumn brushwork".