The life of Confucius - the "Master of All Ages"

Confucius' surname was Qiu Zi Zhongni, a Lu guoren during the Warring States period; a famous Chinese thinker, politician and educator, who traveled with his disciples around the world for fourteen years.

Confucius's father was a famous warrior of the Lu kingdom, Confucius was born in 551 BC, and Confucius's early life was extremely hard, his father died when he was three years old, and his mother raised him alone, and his mother left confucius when he was seventeen years old.

At the age of twenty-three, Confucius received apprentices to teach in the countryside; when Confucius was about thirty years old, the first disciples came to Confucius, and since then Confucius has been engaged in the cause of education, widely collecting disciples, according to legend, Confucius has three thousand disciples, and there are seventy-two sages; he once advocated teaching without class, teaching according to aptitude, and was the pioneer and representative of private lectures, so posterity called him "the master of all generations" and "the most holy teacher".

After leaving the country of Lu, Confucius traveled with his disciples around the world, successively traveling with Wei, Cao, Song, Zheng and other countries, but none of them were reused, and they were trapped in danger many times in Song, Pu and other places.

When Confucius arrived in Weiguo, Wei Linggong provided the same treatment as in Luguo; but after living for a while, he was framed and left; Confucius's "Harsh Government Is Fiercer Than Tiger" records that a woman's husband was eaten by a tiger, and her relatives were the same, and Confucius lamented that cruel politics was more terrible than tigers.

After fourteen years of exile, Ji Kangzi sent people to take Confucius back to honor him as the elder of the country, but he was not reused, during this time Confucius focused on education and sorting out ancient books, Confucius looked back on his life and said: "I have five out of ten and am determined to learn, thirty and standing, forty not confused, fifty and know the destiny of heaven, sixty ears are obedient, seventy and do as you please, do not exceed the rules."

Confucius's political thought advocated "virtue for the sake of government", the core of which was benevolence and courtesy; while his economic thought was to emphasize righteousness over profit, and the ideas of "seeing profit and thinking righteousness" and "enriching the people" had a wide influence.

In his later years, Confucius revised "Poems", "Books", "Rituals", "Music", "Yi", and "Spring and Autumn", which were rated by the United Nations as "the first of the world's top ten cultural celebrities", and after Confucius's death, his disciples recorded their words and deeds and compiled them into the Confucian classic "Analects"; the most famous sentences of which are "Three-person line, there will be my teacher." Choose those who are good and follow them, those who are not good, those who are sensitive and eager to learn, and they are not ashamed to ask questions", "the three armies can seize the marshal, but the puppets cannot seize the will", "the Tao is different, do not conspire with each other", "Learning without thinking is reckless, thinking without learning is ruining" and other famous sentences.