Confucius (September 28, 551 BC – April 11, 479 BC), courtesy name Kong, Mingqiu, Zhongni, was a native of the late Spring and Autumn period of the Lu state of Lu (present-day Qufu, Shandong), an ancient Chinese thinker, educator, and founder of the Confucian school.
Confucius pioneered the atmosphere of private lectures, advocating benevolence, righteousness, and wisdom. He led some of his disciples to travel around the world for thirteen years, and in his later years he revised the Six Classics of Poetry, Book, Ritual, Music, Yi, and Spring and Autumn.
Legend has it that Confucius once paid homage to Lao Tzu. After Confucius's death, his disciples and his disciples recorded the words, deeds, and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and compiled them into the Confucian classic Analects.
In ancient times, Confucius was revered as the "Saint of Heaven" and "Heavenly Muduo", and was one of the most erudition scholars in society at that time, and was revered by later rulers as the Sage of Kong, the Most Holy, the Most Holy Teacher, the Most Holy Master of Dacheng, and the Master of Wanshi.
Confucius traveled a wealth of time in his lifetime. Confucius began his journey around the world in the spring of the thirteenth year of luding (497 BC), a year when Confucius was 55 years old.
Confucius constructed a complete "moral tao" ideological system: based on the theory of sexual goodness, the establishment of people is extremely purposeful, with humanity and authenticity, the way of heaven meets, and the humane meanness is timely turned into a methodology, forming a complete ideological system.
The highest ideal of Confucius in his later years was called "Datong". In the world of datong, the people of the world do not only take their own families as their relatives, not only love their parents and children, but also love each other and love all the people in the world.
The core content of Confucius's political thought is "etiquette" and "benevolence", and in the strategy of governing the country, he advocated "virtue for the government", and using morality and etiquette to govern the country is the noblest way to govern the country. This strategy of governance is also called "rule by virtue" or "rule by etiquette".
Confucius's highest political ideal was to build a cosmopolitan society in which "the whole world is just." Confucius's social ideals of "datong" and "moderate prosperity" had a profound impact on future generations in China.
Confucius's most important economic ideas were the concept of righteousness and interests that emphasized righteousness over profit, "seeing profit and thinking righteousness" and the idea of "enriching the people". This is also the main content of Confucian economic thought, which has a greater impact on future generations.
Confucius was the first to propose in Chinese history that people's natural qualities are similar, and the difference in personality is mainly due to acquired education and social environmental influences ("sex is similar, and habit is far away"). Thus everyone can be educated, and everyone should be educated.
In terms of teaching methods, Confucius advocated the educational concept of "teaching without class" and "economy and economy", and the methodology of "teaching according to aptitude" and "heuristic", focusing on child-mongiling and enlightenment education.
Confucius's educational activities not only trained many students, but also laid the theoretical foundation for ancient Chinese education based on his educational theories based on practice.
Confucius's ideas had a profound impact on China and the world, and he was listed as the first of the "world's top ten cultural celebrities".
With the expansion of Confucius's influence, the "Sacrifice of Confucius Ceremony" once became the same level of "Great Worship" as the sacrifice of Chinese ancestor gods. Confucius temples have been built in many parts of China, and foreigners also revere Confucius, and Confucius Institutes are located all over the world.
Confucius was a famous thinker and educator in ancient mainland China, and the founder of the Confucian school. Confucianism not only has the way of being a person in the world, but also the thinking of the great philosophers and sages on the homeland. Confucius's thought is not only immersed in the life of the whole nation, but also expressed in the unique ethical values of the Chinese nation. The ideas of Confucius have been passed down from generation to generation, permeated the blood of each of us, and become the "cultural soul" of Chinese.