Introduction to Confucius from Confucius Secret Files

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) was named Qiu and given the courtesy name Zhongni. A great thinker and educator in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and the founder of Confucianism. A native of Lu. He is the founder of the Confucian school and put forward the idea of ​​"benevolence". He is a famous thinker and educator in ancient China. Through his lifelong advocacy and the development of Confucianism in successive dynasties, Confucius made Chinese Confucianism the mainstream of Chinese culture and has served as the guiding ideology of the Chinese people for more than 2,000 years. The core of Confucius' ideological system is the rule of virtue. He persistently advocated a moralized society and a moralized life. The highest standard of a moralized society is "propriety", and the highest value of a moralized life is "benevolence". Confucius is the founder of the Confucian school and the world's most famous cultural celebrity. He is also proficient in the Book of Changes and the author of "Ten Wings". Confucius was the first person in ancient China to break through the religious attitude towards natural landscapes. I love nature even more than natural landscapes. Nature contains disasters, earthquakes, tornadoes, the extinction of dinosaurs, etc., while natural landscapes are eternal good Feng Shui, proposing the famous aesthetic proposition that "the wise enjoy water, and the benevolent enjoy mountains" ("The Analects of Confucius·Yong Ye").