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It was September 28th, 55 BC1year, now 1449 years ago.

Confucius (Confucius, from September 28th, 5565438 BC to April 28th, 479 BC), born in Zhong Ni, was a famous thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism in ancient China.

He created an atmosphere of private lectures. Confucius was once employed by Laozi and led some disciples to travel around the world for fourteen years. In his later years, he revised the six classics of Poetry, Calligraphy, Rites and Music, Yi Zhuan and Chunqiu. After the death of Confucius, later generations recorded the words and deeds and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and compiled them into the Confucian classic The Analects.

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Confucius' achievements

Moral thought

Confucius constructed a complete ideological system of "virtue and virtue": he advocated the virtue and virtue of "benevolence and courtesy" at the personal level. The ideological system of virtue and Taoism is based on the theory of goodness of nature ("One yin and one yang is the Tao, and those who succeed are also good, and those who succeed are also people"), aiming at establishing the human pole ("three-pole Tao"), and being in harmony with people, heaven and tunnel, the golden mean of human beings will be transformed into the discipline of prescription in due course.

political thought

The core content of Confucius' political thought is "courtesy" and "benevolence". In the general plan of governing the country, he advocates "governing the country by virtue", and governing the country by virtue and virtue is the noblest way to govern the country. This strategy is also called "ruling the country by virtue" or "ruling the country by courtesy". This strategy applies morality and politeness to the people, tightens the hierarchy, and completely divides nobles and civilians into ruled and ruled. Breaking the original important boundary between nobles and civilians.

Economic thought

Confucius' most important economic thought is the thought of valuing righteousness over profit and enriching the people. This is also the main content of Confucian economic thought, which has a great influence on later generations.

Reference source? Baidu Encyclopedia-Confucius (founder of Confucianism)