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As a result, almost all activities and conducts concerning with archery were elaborately designed and integrated into various ceremony activities, these ceremony activities together are called Lishe, including many forms, such as Dasheli, Yansheli, Xiangsheli, etc. They are the essential parts of Chinese Liyue. In fact, to see from a different angle, Lishe, the institutionalized archery ceremony can be seen both as an archery-oriented contest, and the demonstration of archery related etiquettes, within which contain the primary forms of Chinese thoughts in sports.
| Coexisting with Lishe, there are also practical archery techniques in the military, civilian archery as leisure, and other paramilitary archery activities. Comparing to the ritual and gentle Lishe, these archery activities are called "Wushe", namely martial archery. They are judged by the thickness and accuracy their shootings can make at the leather made target, so they are also called "Guangezhishe", namely, shooting of leather penetration. Wushe are obviously military activities, despite of the fact that there are also certain elements of competition in it, but they mainly concentrate on the actual effect, the strength of the bows and the distance of shoots.
The great educator Confucius (551 BC~479 BC) was the founder of private education in China; he challenged and broke the monopoly of education right originally held by aristocrats. He is also a zealous advocate of Sheli. He includes archery into his education system, as one of the six basic skills pupils should have to learn. He once said that "Noble men have nothing to compete, if really have to, Let us compete in archery... and the archery contest should be decorous." Confucius himself was also a great toxophilite, regularly demonstrated his archery skills. He emphasizes the educational function of archery, so one of his famous phrases is "to look inside one's moral through watching his archery skills." He regards the archery training as the important means for people to learn etiquettes and the moral standards.
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