Jia Zhigang Talks About the Seventh Spring and Autumn Period: Confucius' Family
by Jia Zhigang
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"Jia Zhigang Talks about the Spring and Autumn Period, Part 7: Confucius' Family" is the perfect conclusion of Jia Zhigang's "Spring and Autumn Period". Confucius passed away on April 11, the sixteenth year of Duke Ai of Lu (479 BC), at the age of seventy-three. A physical Confucius returned to the dust, and a Confucius as a saint went to the altar. However, this symbolic Confucius saint had an ill-fated fate in China in the 20th century. In the 21st century, he has become a familiar stranger again. What kind of person was Confucius? We don't have to rush to label him as a thinker, educator, etc. Let's look at the humble dreams he once had, his growth, his joyful and sorrowful life, and how Confucius and his disciples stirred up the general trend of the Spring and Autumn Period in an era when nations were competing for supremacy. Confucius was not a perfect man, he was not a god. However, Confucius was a person who had a profound influence on Chinese history. Every Chinese may have the blood of Confucius flowing in his body, and every Chinese must have the spirit of Confucius in his bones.
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