. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . cher), which the Jesuitmissionaries Latinized into Confucius. Hismother used to call him KieV (little hil-lock), because he had an unusual elevationon the top of his forehead, with which he isoften represented. His father, Shnh-heang-ho, died when Confucius was only three yearsof age; but he was very carefully broughtup by his mother, Yan-she, and from his ear-liest years displayed an extraordinary loveof learning and
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . cher), which the Jesuitmissionaries Latinized into Confucius. Hismother used to call him KieV (little hil-lock), because he had an unusual elevationon the top of his forehead, with which he isoften represented. His father, Shnh-heang-ho, died when Confucius was only three yearsof age; but he was very carefully broughtup by his mother, Yan-she, and from his ear-liest years displayed an extraordinary loveof learning and veneration for the ancientlaws of his country. The prudence, recti-tude, and philosophic gravity of his conductwhile a boy, are also highly extolled by Chi-nese writers. At the age of seventeen, hewas made an inspector of the corn-marts, anddistinguished himself by his industry andenergy in repressing fraud and introducingorder and integrity into the whole only nineteen, he married, but di-vorced his wife four years after marriage,that he miirht have more time for study andthe performance of his public duties. Con-fucius was next appointed inspector-general. Traditional Likeness of Confucius. of the pastures and flocks ; and the result ofhis judicious measures, we are told, was ageneral improvement in the cultivation ofthe country, and the condition of the death of his mother, which happened inhis twenty-third year, interrupted for a timehis administrative functions, and gave occa-sion to the first solemn and important act ofConfucius as a moral reformer. Accordingto the ancient, but then almost forgottenlaws of China, children were obliged to re-sign all public employments on the death ofeither of their parents; and Confucius, de-sirous of renewing the observance in his na-tive land of all the practices of venerableantiquity, did not fail to conform to this long-neglected enactment. The solemnity andsplendor of the burial ceremony with whichhe honored
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