Confucius was China s greatest educator teacher philosopher billbords in Singapore Thian Hock Keng Temple
ccording to tradition, Confucius was born in 551 BC, in the Spring and Autumn Period, at the beginning of the Hundred Schools of Thought philosophical movement. Confucius was born in or near the city of Qufu, in the Chinese State of Lu (now part of Shandong Province). Early accounts say that he was born into a poor but noble family that had fallen on hard times. The Records of the Grand Historian compiled some four centuries later, indicate that the marriage of Confucius's parents did not conform to Liand therefore was a yehe or "illicit union", for when they got married, his father was a very old man and past proper age for marriage but his mother was only in her late teens. His father died when Confucius was three years old and he was brought up in poverty by his mother. His social ascendancy linked him to the growing class of shì a class whose status lay between that of the old nobility and the common people, that comprised men who sought social positions on the basis of talents and skills, rather than heredity. As a child, Confucius was said to have enjoyed putting ritual vases on the sacrifice table. He married a young girl named Qi Quan at 19 and she gave birth to their first child Kong Li when he was 20. Confucius is reported to have worked as a shepherd, cowherd, clerk and mother died when Confucius was and he entered three years of mourning. Confucius is said to have risen to the position of Justice Minister in Lu at the age of to the Records of the Grand Historian, the neighboring state of Qi was worried that Lu was becoming too powerful. Qi decided to sabotage Lu's reforms by sending 100 good horses and 80 beautiful dancing girls to the Duke of Lu.
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