Information about Confucius

Confucius (September 28, 551 B.C.-April 11, 479 B.C.E.), surnamed Zi, Kung, name Qiu, character Zhongni, a native of Zuoyi, State of Lu (present-day Qufu, Shandong Province) at the end of Spring and Autumn Period, with ancestry in Liyi, State of Song (present-day Xiayi, Henan Province), was an ancient Chinese thinker, educator, and founder of the school of Confucianism.

Confucius initiated 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 thirteen years, and in his later years he revised the six sutras of Poetry, Calligraphy, Rituals, Music, Ease of Use, and Spring and Autumn Annals. After the death of Confucius, his disciples and re-disciples recorded the words, deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and organized and compiled them into the Analects. The book is regarded as a Confucian classic.

Confucius' ideas have had a profound impact on China and the world, and he is listed as one of the world's ten most famous cultural figures. With the expansion of Confucius' influence, the "Confucius Ceremony" once became a "great ritual" on the same level as the rituals of the Chinese ancestral gods.

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Kim Ik-soo, a Korean scholar, said: "Confucius is a saint of all time, and the originator of the philosophical thinking of the Eastern world. (Anthology of Memorial and Academic Symposium on the 2540th Anniversary of the Birth of Confucius)

Japanese founder of the school of ancient learning, Ito Rensai: The virtue of Confucius is indeed beyond the group of saints, and the way of Confucius is above heaven and earth. (The Ancient Meaning of the Analects)

Japanese scholar Yasushi Inoue: Confucius is not only the forefather of Chinese culture, but also the teacher of all mankind. ("Confucius")

American poet, philosopher, and thinker Emerson: "Confucius is the philosophical Washington," and "Confucius is the center of Chinese culture, and Confucius is the glory of all the peoples of the world." (Dictionary of Confucian Knowledge)

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