The poem to commemorate the birthday of Confucius is to hold candles for nine years, chant the tomb, and hide in Nanshan to dream of Datong. When you look up, people and people are all competing for profit, when you turn back to the market, there are common customs.
Introduction to Confucius:
Zi's surname was Kong, his given name was Qiu, and his courtesy name was Zhongni. He was a native of Zouyi (now Qufu City, Shandong Province) in the state of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, and his ancestral home was Liyi in the state of Song. (Today's Xiayi County, Henan Province). His father is Liang He, his mother is Yan. Ancient Chinese thinker, politician, educator, and founder of Confucianism.
Confucius lost his father when he was three years old, and his family fell into decline. In his early years, he worked as a minor official in charge of granaries and herding. He was "little fond of etiquette" and had been familiar with traditional etiquette since childhood. As a young man, he was famous in Lu for his extensive knowledge of etiquette and music. He engaged in the profession of Confucianism and made a living by performing funeral rituals. In his middle age, he gathers his disciples to give lectures and engage in educational activities.
At the age of 50, he once served as the military commander of the Lu State, acting as prime minister and actively promoting his own political ideas. Soon after, he abandoned his official position and went to Lu due to disagreements with the political views of the rulers. He traveled around the country with his disciples and spread propaganda. His own political opinions and ideological doctrines have never been used. In his later years, he returned to the State of Lu and devoted himself to education, sorting out "Poetry" and "Books", deleting and revising "Spring and Autumn", and making the transmission of the Six Arts his lifelong ambition.
Confucius once led some of his disciples to travel around the world for fourteen years and revised the Six Classics (Poetry, Book, Rites, Music, Book of Changes, and Spring and Autumn Annals). After his death, his disciples and subsequent disciples recorded the words, deeds, quotes and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and compiled them into The Analects of Confucius. The book is regarded as a Confucian classic.
Confucius had a profound and long-lasting influence on later generations. His "benevolence" and "propriety" have become important principles for national governance and personal self-cultivation; his civilian education thought of "education without discrimination" has enabled the infinite inheritance of Chinese civilization; his systematic arrangement of ancient documents not only placed his own ideals , which makes the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation have a profound and broad connotation.
The core content of Confucius' political thought is "propriety" and "benevolence". In terms of the strategy of governing the country, he advocated "governing with virtue" and governing the country with morality and etiquette is the most noble way of governing the country. road. This kind of governance strategy is also called "Government by virtue" or "Government by etiquette".
This strategy imparts virtues and etiquette to the people, strictly follows the hierarchy, and clearly divides the nobility and the common people into the rulers and the governed, breaking an important original boundary between the nobility and the common people. .