The Four Books and Five Classics, collectively called the Four Books and Five Classics, are a series of classic works in ancient China. The four books refer to The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Daxue and The Doctrine of the Mean. The Five Classics refer to The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu, and are called The Book of Songs and the Book of Rites in Chunqiu. In fact, there should have been six classics and one song, which are collectively called The Book of Songs and the Book of Rites in the Spring and Autumn Period, but they were later lost, leaving only five classics.

Six Arts-Rites (Rites)

Six basic talents

Six basic abilities that China ancient Confucianism required students to master: courtesy, music, shooting, command, calligraphy and number.

From "Bao's Family in Zhou Li": "Cultivating the country by Tao is to teach six arts: one is five rites, the other is six music, the third is five shots, the fourth is five orders, the fifth is six books and the sixth is nine numbers."

Rite: Etiquette (that is, moral education today)

Le: Music.

Shooting: archery skills (exercise physique and cultivate character)

Royal: the skill of driving a carriage

Book: calligraphy (that is, modern literature)

Number: algorithm (that is, modern mathematics)