Confucius was a famous teacher when he was young. He always feels that he is not knowledgeable enough. At the age of thirty, he left his hometown Qufu and went to Luoyang to learn from the great thinker Laozi.

Confucius told the story that Confucius, a famous thinker and educator in ancient China, worshipped Laozi as a teacher, which reflected Confucius' modest and studious learning spirit and Laozi's tireless teaching and care for the younger generation.

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Confucius initiated the wind of private schools and advocated benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. There are 3,000 disciples, including 72 sages. He led some disciples to travel around the world for thirteen years, and revised the six classics of Poetry, Book, Rite, Yue, Yijing and Chunqiu in his later years. After the death of Confucius, his disciples and re-disciples recorded the words and deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples and compiled The Analects. This book is regarded as a Confucian classic.

Confucius was honored as a "saint of heaven" and a "muduo of heaven" when he was alive, and even as a saint, the most holy, the most holy teacher, the most holy teacher, the king's teacher and the eternal teacher of Confucius by later rulers. His thoughts have a far-reaching influence on China and the world, and he is listed as the first of the "Top Ten Cultural Celebrities in the World".

In the twenty-fourth year of Duke Xiang of Lu (549 BC), when Confucius was three years old, Shu died of illness and was buried in defense. After the death of Shu, Yan Zhizhai lost his asylum and was chased by Shu's wife Shi, so he took his younger brothers Meng Pi and Confucius to Qufu Que and lived a poor life.

In the fifth year of Emperor Lu Zhaodi (537 BC), Confucius realized that he had to study hard to be a man and live, so he said that although he was fifteen years old, his ambition was to study.

In the seventh year of Lu (535 BC), Yan Zhizai, the mother of Confucius, died. This year, Ji's family gave a banquet to entertain the first-class aristocrats. Confucius went to the banquet, but yang hu, the minister of Ji's family, turned him away.

In the ninth year of Lu (533 BC), Confucius 19 years old. He married the daughter of an official in the Song Dynasty in order to visit his ancestral home frequently.

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