According to Confucian belief, what should poetry, music, painting, and the other arts do?

a) They reveal the inherent order and harmony of the state.
b) They depend upon royal patronage.
c) They are separate disciplines, each with different rules.
d) They are inferior activities unworthy of noblemen.


Answer: a

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