man who knows how to Confucius in Europe, in China, always called Kun Qiu.However, the features of the Chinese pronunciation lead to several variants of transcription: Kung Fu Tse, Kong Zi or Zi simple.The latter, incidentally, means "teacher."Confucius, whose biography is now one of the most authoritative spiritual source for residents of the Middle Kingdom, was a great ancient Chinese thinker, sage and founder of the philosophical system, which received its name.The main provisions of this theory were ethical concepts of the ancient Chinese and the natural human need for happiness and well-being.
Confucius brief biography
This man was born around 551 BC.e.in modern Shandong province (then Qufu).Confucius, whose biography is studied so closely, as it allows the extant historical sources, was a descendant of an impoverished aristocratic family.His father was an elderly officer.Since childhood, the boy knew the hard work and hardship.However, curiosity, hard work and a natural desire to break out of the men pushed him to the constant self-education and self-improvement.
Confucius, whose biography is full of adversity and hardship in his youth worked as superintendent of public land and warehouses.However, at the age of 22 he took up that later defined his vocation - to private education.We must not forget that China has always highly valued education.Promoting the career ladder was unthinkable without passing special examinations.Soon, the young man became famous throughout China.Educated them private school was open to all, regardless of material wealth or nobility of origin.Confucius, whose biography is filled with many parables and stories about the relationship between teachers and students are not engaged in any other case to a very ripe old age.Only in the 50 years it enters the public service.Soon, however, intrigues forced him to leave the case, then it is thirteen years of travels to China, accompanied by his disciples.During his travels, he made constant visits to the rulers of different areas, bringing them up to their own ethical and moral and political doctrine.However, the ideas of Confucius in those years were not so popular, what they would be even later.In 484 BC.e.He settles in the city of Lu.Since that time, the great thinker had only a matter of teaching.
legend about him says that the philosophy of Confucius has become more and more popular in China.The number of his students close to three thousand.Of these, about seventy are approximate.Twelve always persistently followed his mentor.There are even twenty-six students of the great thinker's name.In parallel with this case, Confucius been distributing books.In 479 BC.e.the great philosopher overtook death.According to legend, it was on the banks of a quiet river, in the shadow of the branches and foliage sweeping tree.
