What are the celebrities of Confucianism

1, Confucius (September 28, 551 BC - April 11, 479 BC), surnamed Zi, Kong, name Qiu, the word Zhongni, the end of the Spring and Autumn period in the State of Lu, Zuoyi (now Shandong Qufu), ancestor of the State of Song, Liyi (now Henan Xiayi), the ancient Chinese thinker, educator, the founder of the school of Confucianism.?

Confucius started the trend of private lectures and advocated benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith. He led some of his disciples to travel around the world for thirteen years, and in his later years he revised the six sutras of Poetry, Calligraphy, Rites, Music, Yi, and Spring and Autumn. According to legend, Confucius once asked Laozi about his rituals and had three thousand disciples, seventy-two of whom were sages.

After the death of Confucius, his disciples and their re-transmitted disciples recorded the words, deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and organized and compiled them into the Confucian classic, The Analects of Confucius.

2. Kong Fai (孔伋), with the character Zisi (子思), was a direct grandson of Confucius and the son of Confucius' son, Kong Lei (孔鲤). He was born about the thirty-seventh year of King Jing of the Zhou (483 B.C.) and died in the twenty-fourth year of King Wei Lie of the Zhou (402 B.C.) at the age of 82.

Famous Chinese thinker of the Spring and Autumn period. He was taught by Zeng Sen (曾参), a senior disciple of Confucius, and Confucius' thought and doctrine was passed on from Zeng Sen to Zi Si (子思), and Zi Si's disciples then passed it on to Mencius (孟子). Later, Zisi and Mencius were jointly called the Si-Meng school of thought, thus Zisi inherited Zeng Sen from above, and Mencius from below, and had an important position in the inheritance of Confucius and Mencius' "Taoism".

3. Meng Zi (about 372 years ago - 289 years ago), surnamed Ji, Meng, name Ke, name Ziwei, during the Warring States period in Zou (present-day Zoucheng, Jining, Shandong Province) people.

Famous philosopher, thinker, statesman and educator during the Warring States period, Meng was one of the representatives of the Confucian school of thought, second only to Confucius, with whom he was also known as "Kong and Meng". He was one of the first to put forward the idea of "the people are precious and the ruler is light".

Han Yuai's "Original Dao" listed Mencius as the pre-Qin Confucian successor to Confucius' "Taoist" character, and the Yuan Dynasty posthumously named Mencius as "Yasheng Gong-Shu Chen" and honored him as "Yasheng", and the book "Mengzi" is one of the most important books in the history of Confucianism, and it is one of the most important books in the history of Confucianism. The book "Mengzi" is a collection of essays in the form of quotations, a compilation of Mengzi's remarks, written by Mengzi and his disciples***, advocating "benevolence as the basis".

4, Xunzi (about 313 BC - 238 BC), the name of the situation, the word Qing, Huaxia (Han), the end of the Warring States period, Zhao people ? He was a famous thinker, writer and statesman, and was honored as "Xun Qing". During the Western Han Dynasty, he was also known as Sun Qing (孙卿) because he avoided the name of Liu Xun (刘询), Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and because of the similarity of the ancient sounds of the words "荀" and "孙". He served as the priest of the Jixi Academy of Qi for three times, and later became the order of Lanling of Chu (located in present-day Lanling County, Shandong Province).

Xunzi developed Confucianism and advocated the theory of sexual evil on the issue of human nature, claiming that human nature has evil, denying the concept of innate morality, and emphasizing the influence of acquired environment and education on human beings. His doctrine has often been compared with Mencius' 'theory of the goodness of nature' by later generations, and Xunzi also made quite a notable contribution to the reorganization of the Confucian canon.

5. Dong Zhongshu (179 BC-104 BC), a native of Guangchuan (southwestern Jingxian County, Hebei Province, at the junction of Jingxian, Gucheng, and Zaoqiang counties), was a philosopher of the Western Han Dynasty. He was a philosopher of the Western Han Dynasty. He served as a doctor at the time of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and lectured on the "Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ram". In the first year of Yuan Guang (134 BC), Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty issued an imperial edict to solicit strategies for governing the country, and Dong Zhongshu combined Confucianism with the social needs of the time in his famous "Countermeasures for Raising Sages and Liangs".

And absorbed the theories of other schools of thought to create a new system of thought centered on Confucianism, which was y appreciated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The idea of "depose the hundred schools and revere only Confucianism" was adopted by Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, which made Confucianism become the orthodox thought of Chinese society, and its influence lasted for more than 2,000 years.

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