What is the image of Confucius?

The image of Confucius is Kong Shengren (孔圣人), Supreme Sage (至圣), Supreme Sage (至圣先师), Dacheng Supreme Sage (大成至圣)Wen Xuanwang (文宣王)先师 (先师), and Teacher of the World (万世师表).

Confucius pioneered the style of private lecturing and advocated benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith. He had three thousand disciples, of whom seventy-two were sages. He led some of his disciples to travel around the world for fourteen years, and in his later years he revised the Six Classics ("Poetry," "Calligraphy," "Rites," "Music," "Changes," and "Spring and Autumn Annals").

Confucius founded a moral doctrine centered on benevolence, and was himself a very kind person, compassionate and helpful, treating others with sincerity and generosity. "Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you," "A gentleman is a man of beauty, not a man of evil," and "Be generous with yourself, but not with others," among others, were his guidelines for being a human being.

"I am ten and five, and I aspire to learn, thirty and stand, forty and not confused, fifty and know the fate of heaven, sixty and smooth ears, seventy and from the heart, not over the rule." This is Confucius' summary of the stages of his life.

Confucius's Political Doctrine:

Confucius's political thought centered on the concepts of "propriety" and "benevolence". In terms of the strategy for governing the country, he advocated that "to govern with virtue", using morality and etiquette to govern the country is the noblest way of governing the country. This strategy is also called "rule by virtue" or "rule by rites". This strategy applied morals and rites to the people and strictly followed the hierarchical system, dividing the nobles and the common people into the rulers and the ruled. It broke down an important boundary between the nobility and the common people.

Confucius lived in the Western Zhou Dynasty in the deeper tradition of patriarchal etiquette in the state of Lu, at this time, the Zhou dynasty's ruling power has existed in name only, the vassal wars with each other, the emergence of the "king's way of mourning, the abolition of the rites and righteousness of the regime is lost, the family is different from the custom of the social reality," "the king is not a king, the subject is not a subject, the father is not the father, The social reality of the era was characterized by "the ruler is not a ruler, the minister is not a minister, the father is not a father, and the son is not a son".

The intensification of social conflicts hindered the development of productive forces, and the spirit and beliefs of people were destroyed as never before. These ****together constitute the historical origin and social conditions for the emergence of Confucius' political thought, and "benevolence" and "propriety" are the basic spirit of his political thought.