1, Confucius (55 BC1-April 479 BC 1 1), son surnamed Kong, born in Lucheng (now Qufu, Shandong Province) in the Spring and Autumn Period, and his ancestral home was Song (now Xiayi County, Henan Province).
2. Yan Hui (52 BC1-48 BC1), surnamed Cao, Yan, Ming Hui, Zi Ziyuan, a native of the capital city of Lu (now Qufu City, Shandong Province), lived in the ugly alley (now the ugly alley street in the old city of Qufu City, Shandong Province, where Yan Temple is located), and was revered as Fu Shengyanzi, a Lu thinker at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period.
3. (505 years ago-435 years ago), Zeng, Shen (there are two sayings in academic circles, one is to read shēn, the other is to read cān), a native of Wucheng, Lunan (now Pingyi, Shandong, Jiaxiang, Shandong). At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, he was a thinker, a master of Confucianism, one of Confucius' disciples in his later years, an important representative of Confucianism, and a descendant of Yu Xia. His father, Ceng Dian, named Xi, was one of the seventy-two sages, and his son had studied under Confucius.
4, Kong _ (483-402 BC), Zi Zisi, a native of Lu, the grandson of Confucius, the son of Confucius. Born in the thirty-seventh year of Zhou (483 BC), he died in the twenty-fourth year of Zhou Weilie (402 BC) at the age of 82.
5. Mencius (about 372 BC-289 BC) was born in Zouguo (now southeast of Zoucheng City, Shandong Province). Philosophers, thinkers and educators in the Warring States period were the representatives of Confucianism after Confucius and before Xunzi, and they were also called "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius.