If you want to have a book, this person who has the deepest influence on our country, Confucius must be counted as one, but the influence of others is not only China, even UNESCO has listed Confucius as the first of the "world's top ten cultural celebrities".
Confucius's thought can be said to be the core of our traditional Chinese culture, so today, there are books to take everyone to understand the life of Confucius, through this "Biography of Confucius".
In fact, with regard to the life of Confucius himself, he himself recounted it in this way, and many people are also very familiar with it, that is: "I have five out of ten and am determined to learn, thirty and standing, forty and not confused, fifty and knowing the Destiny of Heaven, sixty and obedient, seventy and do not exceed the rules of the heart."
In just thirty-eight words, he wrote the highest standard of an ideal life.
According to the Chronicle of History, Confucius was a descendant of Yin Shang. But when he was three years old, his father died, and the Kong family declined.
It is said that the children of poor families have long been in charge, and Confucius was poor when he was young, so he would have a lot of skills to make a living. But after all, he was also a scholar, so those who engaged in politics had to learn traditional Confucianism, such as what rites, music, shooting, imperial, books, and numbers, all of which he mastered.
At that time, these were equivalent to the necessary knowledge and skills of ancient civil servants.
When Confucius was fifteen years old, he made clear his ambition - "to learn".
At the age of thirty, he resigned his post and began to set up a private school, which could be enrolled in both the children of nobles and the children of commoners, according to Confucius.
After several years of political career, Confucius devoted all his time and energy to nurturing students between the ages of thirty-seven and fifty. His growing number of disciples made him famous.
Although during this period, Confucius did not do anything in the political arena. But he was always happy and calm, sitting with the students every day and arguing, it seems that compared to being an official, this old master still likes his profession as a teacher.
Confucius's private studies are very special, called Junzi University, and his university will not teach you how to be an official and how to make a living, not to cultivate everyone's professional skills, but to cultivate everyone's noble character, broad mind and grand ambition.
It can be said that in the current words, it is not practical at all, but Confucius believed that "a gentleman is not a tool", and the real gentleman should not become a tool with a special purpose, and he also warned the student Zixia: "Ru is a gentleman, not a villain."
And this little Confucian is professional Confucianism, professional Confucianism, referring to traditional Confucianism.
The gentleman Confucianism in Confucius's mouth is a Confucian who aspires to learn, with the ambition of exploring the origin of the universe and the road of life.
The ambition of Junzi Confucianism, in the words of the Northern Song Dynasty philosopher Mr. Zhang Hengqu, is: "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, continue to learn from the saints, and open up peace for all the worlds." Confucius's ambition was admirable, and "dedication to learning" eventually made Confucius the "Most Holy Teacher."
Confucius's new teaching method had a great impact on that time, and intellectuals began to study not to seek careers, but to begin to awaken and realize their historical mission and responsibility, which further contributed to the controversy of the hundred schools of thought later.
Overall, Confucius transformed the intellectuals of his time from specialized vocational techniques to academic genres.
So, what influence did Confucius's thought have on us?
For example, when it comes to benevolence and morality, you will think that Confucius was an extreme moralist.
In fact, it is not, just imagine, what if we meet some immoral, ritual-breaking people? Is it to repay the grievances and take revenge, or to repay the grievances with virtue and forgive others?
The answer given by Mr. Confucius is "to repay grievances with directness."
In fact, he is against extreme morality, and you cannot ask a person to be extremely good, nor do you believe that these social problems can be solved by a single morality alone.
How to understand it with direct complaints? That is, for hatred, we should return to justice and make morality binding, just like the legal society we are building today, punishing the evil people, we need to rely on the law and treat them fairly, not to be violent or arbitrary.
When Confucius was fifty-one years old, he entered politics again, giving the country of Lu a thriving state. It also entered the political core of the Lu state and implemented its own political strategy.
But Confucius's political future was always full of dangers, so he left the country of Lu again and began a career of traveling around the world. Between the ages of fifty-five and sixty-eight, Confucius wandered around the seven countries of Wei, Cao, Song, Zheng, Chen, Cai, and Chu, trying to find a prince and promote his morality. But it didn't work out.
Therefore, when Confucius was sixty-eight years old, he returned to the country of Lu. In his later years, while teaching, he sorted out ancient documents. He edited and revised "Poetry", "Book", "Ritual", "Music", "Yi", "Spring and Autumn" and other works. These classics became a core part of the mainland's traditional culture.
During Confucius's lifetime, he cultivated three thousand disciples and seventy-two sages. Not many of these students later became officials, and most of them became teachers and influenced others.
Therefore, Confucius is a source of culture. Through his three thousand disciples, his educational philosophy and teaching ideas have covered the whole country, passed down from generation to generation, changed China's cultural history, and greatly improved the overall cultural level of the Chinese nation.
When Confucius was seventy-three years old, he fell ill and died. Many disciples guarded confucius's funeral for three years, and Zigong guarded his tomb for six years.
Because of the reverence for Confucius, some of his disciples, as well as many Lu people, also established homes around the Tomb of Kong, and gradually formed a new village, that is, Kongli.
Well, today's content is here, if you want to understand the sage kong in depth, there is a book jun or suggest that you can take the time to find the book to read it.