In his youth he worked in the administration of the State of Lu. He began in the work of the state granaries, and little by little he rose, reaching the Ministry of Justice. He had to resign due to his opposition to the prince’s policies.
One of his teachers was Zi Zhaan, who was Prime Minister of Cheng, who coined the first code of justice in China. He was also influenced by the unbelief of the religion of his time. Since, having lost many battles, faith in their deities was lost.
In the course of your life He was a teacher and at the same time an official of the small state of Lu, in the times of the fragmentation of the power of the Chu dynasty. His name in Chinese was Kǒngzǐ, which meant “Master Kong”; However, it is sometimes derived from Kung Fu Tzu, and in Latin it is given the name of Confucius.
When I had 50 years began with his wise teachings. He moved from one place to another and leaving the imprint of his wisdom on the disciples at his side. His name and his teachings as a wise human being of ancestral customs they spread all over China.
Many emperors they took as their axis the ideas of Confucius to govern. In the time of the second half when China was managed by the Zhou dynasty, which was before Confucius, the authorities underwent a process of degeneration and decline, reaching the totality of the problem.
For his part, Confucius was concerned about all this, and in the same way the absence of moral paradigms to solve this situation. Therefore, It was argued that the only way to fix it was by spreading the precepts and teachings of traditional wisdom among his people.
For this reason, he encouraged his students to learn classical Chinese literature. He also defended the value of the example. He even claimed that you can only become great if life is conducted in an exemplary manner and channeled by moral precepts.
Confucius left power in 496 BC, deciding to spend his time traveling around various parts and continuing his teachings; however, he waited in vain for another prince to commission him to carry out reforms. It was then that in 484 BC, after seeing his hopes surrendered, he returned to Lu for the last time.
They spent his later years writing commentaries on classical authors. He died 479 BC in Lu, being buried in Qufu (Shandong). They were declared the Confucius cemetery, and in the same way the Kong family’s house as a cultural heritage of humanity (1994).