Confucius

Kong Qiu, whom the West calls Confucius, was born according to tradition in 551 BCE in the state of Lu, in present-day Shandong, into a family of modest means. He had a poor youth and held minor jobs, keeping accounts and tending livestock according to the Stanford encyclopedia, and trained in rites and music. He sought office without obtaining a high post according to the New York Review of Books, minister of Justice of Lu according to Stanford, before wandering from principality to principality in search of a prince. He taught his disciples and died in Lu in 479.

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