Confucius' Parents' Cemetery

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Confucius Temple
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Confucius Research Institute

孔府、孔庙、孔林 Mansion of Confucius, Temple of Confucius and Confucian Tombs

Starting with a grand ceremony held every year on September 28 to commemorate Confucius, this video brings us to the hometown of Confucius in Shandong province to learn more about him, one of the greatest sages in China and the world.

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5. The Life And Death Of Confucius

Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/; 551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.

The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism.

Confucius is traditionally credited with having authored or edited many of the Chinese classic texts including all of the Five Classics, but modern scholars are cautious of attributing specific assertions to Confucius himself. Aphorisms concerning his teachings were compiled in the Analects, but only many years after his death.

Confucius's principles had a basis in common Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor worship, respect of elders by their children and of husbands by their wives. He also recommended family as a basis for ideal government. He espoused the well-known principle Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself, an early version of the Golden Rule.

Confucius' family and personal name respectively was Kong Qiu (孔丘 Kǒng Qiū). His courtesy name was Zhongni (仲尼 Zhòngní). In Chinese, he is most often known as Kongzi (孔子 Kǒng Zǐ, literally Master Kong). He is also known by the honorific Kong Fuzi (孔夫子 Kǒng Fūzǐ, literally Master Kong). In the Wade–Giles system of romanization, the honorific name is rendered as K'ung Fu-tzu. The Latinized name Confucius is derived from Kong Fuzi, and was first coined by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries to China, most probably by Matteo Ricci.

Within the Analects, he is often referred to simply as the Master (子 Zǐ). In 1 AD, Confucius was given his first posthumous name, the Laudably Declarable Lord Ni (褒成宣尼公). In 1530, he was declared the Extremely Sage Departed Teacher (至聖先師). He is also known separately as the Great Sage (至聖), First Teacher (先師), and Model Teacher for Ten Thousand Ages (萬世師表).

Family background

According to tradition, three generations before Confucius' time, his ancestors had migrated from the Song state to the Lu state. Confucius was a descendant of the Shang dynasty Kings through the Dukes of Song.

Biography

It is generally thought that Confucius was born in 551 BC. His birthplace was in Zou, Lu state (near present-day Qufu, Shandong Province). His father Kong He (孔紇), also known as Shuliang He (叔梁紇), was an officer in the Lu military. Kong He died when Confucius was three years old, and Confucius was raised by his mother Yan Zhengzai (顏徵在) in poverty. At age 19 he married his wife, surnamed Qiguan (亓官), and a year later the couple had their first child, Kong Li (孔鯉).

Confucius was born into the class of shi (士), between the aristocracy and the common people. He is said to have worked as a shepherd, cowherd, clerk, and a book-keeper. When his mother died, Confucius (aged 23) is said to have mourned for three years as was the tradition.

Political career
The Lu state was headed by a ruling ducal house. Under the duke were three aristocratic families, whose heads bore the title of viscount and held hereditary positions in the Lu bureaucracy. The Ji family held the position Minister over the Masses, who was also the Prime Minister; the Meng family held the position Minister of Works; and the Shu family held the position Minister of War. In the winter of 505 BC, Yang Hu—a retainer of the Ji family—rose up in rebellion and seized power from the Ji family. However, by the summer of 501 BC, the three hereditary families had succeeded in expelling Yang Hu from Lu. By then, Confucius had built up a considerable reputation through his teachings, while the families came to see the value of proper conduct and righteousness, so they could achieve loyalty to a legitimate government. Thus, that year (501 BC), Confucius came to be appointed to the minor position of governor of a town. Eventually, he rose to the position of Minister of Crime.

Searching For Confucius

Does Confucianism have relevance today or was it simply a tool of the elite to repress the underclass?

For 2,500 years Confucius has cast a long and tantalizing shadow. So influential and pragmatic is his philosophy that anyone of Chinese origin must have some knowledge of this ancient sage's work to truly understand their heritage. For the rest of humanity, whether realized or not, the old philosopher has left his mark on just about everyone's way of thinking.

This hour-long documentary tells the story of a modern day quest to rediscover Confucius by examining his life and times. The program's host, Canadian-born writer Wayson Choy, grew up in an immigrant household where Confucian principles were strictly adhered. Such tradition brought suffering to a family struggling to make its way in an alien world, but it also produced a strong backbone, self-discipline and an important code of behavior.

Wayson travels to China, the homeland of his parents, where he walks in Confucius' footsteps. He travels to a cave in the village of Zouyi where Confucius was born over 2,500 years ago and completes the journey at the Confucius Cemetery where the philosopher died in 479 B.C. It's a dramatic, picturesque and exciting journey. Along the way, our host talks with authorities on Confucius philosophy as well as ordinary people.

We learn that Confucius was the first private teacher in China who believed that education makes the man; that adhering to one's ethics is more important than position, wealth and even life. It was Confucius' Golden Rule that first insisted, Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you.

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A tour of Confucius family temple in Qufu China

A tour of Confucius family temple in Qufu China

Mencius

Mencius (Chinese: 孟子; pinyin: Mèng Zǐ; Wade–Giles: Meng4 Tzu3; Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄇㄥˋ ㄗˇ; most accepted dates: 372 – 289 BC; other possible dates: 385 – 303/302 BC) was a Chinese philosopher who is the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself.


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Confucius (551--479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism.


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先秦: 孔子 Confucius

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Confucius

Razing Ancestral Graves Widely Outrages Chinese

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A large-scale ancestral grave-razing movement has been
launched in mid-year in Zhoukou city, Henan Province.
So far, over 2 million graves have been leveled off,
leaving empty nearly 30,000 MU(5000acres) of arable land.
For the Chinese Communist Party authorities,
this is not an isolated issue.
Earlier on, the same movement had taken place
in Nanyang city.
Reverence of ancestral graves is deemed an important
part of traditional Chinese culture.
The issue of ancestral grave-razing in Zhoukou has now
aroused wide and intense public attention.

Zhoukou is known as a capital of ancient China and
the birth place of Lao Zi, founder of Taoism.
In recent years, the province has launched a massive
and ongoing ancestral grave-razing movement.
So far, millions of graves have been razed in the province.

Some scholars called for an immediate stop
to be put to this official action.
In an open letter, they have said that this is barbarism,
that it seriously violates freedom of belief,
and that it ruins traditional Chinese
culture, and hurts public feelings.

Nearly 300 people signed the appeal letter. The signatories
range from advocates for reviving Confucianism,
professors at Tsinghua University and Peking University,
along with many writers, scholars, lawyers and college students.

Zhu Xinxin (Freelancer in China):
Coffin burial is an age-old folk custom in China.
The CCP's atheism is only its own party ideology,
which shouldn't be imposed on the general public.
Socio-cultural practices were naturally developed and
we should respect them.

The appeal letter states that through ages, the Chinese
have esteemed ancestral virtue and revered the Heavens.
They hold rituals when putting deceased relatives
in the coffin and burying it underground.
Traditionally, the Chinese believe that in this way,
body is finally laid to rest.
The Chinese view it as the last wish of a human life,
and a practice of showing filial piety to elders.
The appeal has said that the ancestral grave-razing
movement has outraged human decency and Heaven, and that it violates legal order.

The appeal points out that the CCP's past grave-razing
movements destroyed the Chinese belief system, leading to social chaos in today's China.

During over 60 years of rule,, the CCP has launched
several ancestral grave-razing movements.
Zhou Enlai, CCP's former premier, once took the lead by
leveling off the graves of his father and his ancestors.

This time, China's media has unanimously opposed
the movement.
The Global Times, under the People's Daily newspaper,
has raised it's voice to stop the practice.
The Southern Weekend newspaper questioned, Must
grave-razing go on in such simple and rude approach?
Web version of the People's Daily, Beijing News and
other several media all shared the view.

Local public in Zhoukou strongly protested against this
official policy.
Local CCP authorities have forced civil servants
to take the lead in razing their ancestral graves.
They have been threatened with suspension from duty,

and are undergoing investigation of the
discipline inspection commission.
Even their salaries and promotion are affected by
their performance of grave-razing.
Those farmers who have resisted grave-razing have been
threatened with suspension of their subsistence allowance,
they are also threatened with detention and even with
being sent to reeducation through labor.

Zhu Xinxin comments that social administration should cover
the participation of citizens and of social organizations.
However, the CCP, with its power-struggle way of thinking,
never thinks society is for being shared with the people.

Zhu Xinxin: Under it's dictatorship, the regime does
everything in order to meet the needs of securing its rule.
It never considers national traditions and public opinions.
So, such a ruling system views all dissenters as its enemies.
Over generations, the CCP has developed
its own enemies, and now ends up a loner.

Public cemetery prices have soared in China.

Reportedly, some luxury cemeteries cost
millions of yuan, far exceeding the price of a house.
Cremation charges in China have skyrocketed, also
Civilians there said that they cannot afford to die.

Ye Huo (Freelancer in Guangdong): China's public
cemetery is now under centralized management and with hefty fees, that's very bad.
Cemetery charges per square meter are far higher
than that of property for a living soul.

Radio France Internationale reviewed that

centralization of graves to vacate more lands is logically the
same as that of selling lands to generate local fiscal revenue.
That is, besides violating human ethics, the ancestral
grave-razing movement embodies sheer pursuit of interest.


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Le temple de Confucius de Beijing (Chine 2013)

Le temple de Confucius de Beijing est le deuxième plus grand temple confucéen de Chine après celui de Qufu. Depuis 1988, il fait partie des sites historiques et culturels majeurs protégés au niveau national par l’état chinois. Sa construction débute en 1302, et les hauts dignitaires du régime viennent y révérer Confucius jusqu’en 1911. Rénové avant les jeux olympiques, ’il n’a rien perdu de son aura, et il est magnifique!

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Confucius

High School project about confucius

Temple of Mencius and Meng Family Mansion，Shandong, China

Mencius is one of the most important Confucianism. Mencius Temple is the place where people feted Mencius. The Meng Family Mansion was the inhabitancy of Mencius' lineal descent offspring.

A Confucius Family， 国产影片： 阙里人家，获优秀电影奖， 吴贻弓导演,一个发生在孔子家族的故事

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Confucius ( kən-FEW-shəs; 551–479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known in the West as Neo-Confucianism, and later New Confucianism (Modern Neo-Confucianism).
Confucius is traditionally credited with having authored or edited many of the Chinese classic texts including all of the Five Classics, but modern scholars are cautious of attributing specific assertions to Confucius himself. Aphorisms concerning his teachings were compiled in the Analects, but only many years after his death.
Confucius's principles have commonality with Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor veneration, and respect of elders by their children and of husbands by their wives, recommending family as a basis for ideal government. He espoused the well-known principle Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself, the Golden Rule. He is also a traditional deity in Daoism.
Confucius is widely considered as one of the most important and influential individuals in shaping human history. His teaching and philosophy greatly impacted people around the world and remains influential today.

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Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known in the West as Neo-Confucianism, and later New Confucianism . Confucius is traditionally credited with having authored or edited many of the Chinese classic texts including all of the Five Classics,, but modern scholars are cautious of attributing specific assertions to Confucius himself. Aphorisms concerning his teachings were compiled in the Analects,, but only many years a...


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