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Confucius And The Ancient Rites And Moral Standard Were Forgotten

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Confucius is an educator having over three thousand disciples, a statesman employed not only in his own State but in several other, but most importantly, he is a ritualist who is a firm believer and steadfast advocator of the Way, which has long been discarded by rulers in Confucius time. During his time, the House of Chou had declined, the ancient rites and moral standard were forgotten, but he had been striving to become a “superior person”, a gentleman, in his whole life, and developed a variety of moral philosophies that was cited and organized by his disciples into the book Analects after Confucius’s demise.
Confucius was born in Tsou, a small village in the State of Lu. He was later given the personal name Chiu with courtesy name Chung-ni and the surname Kung. His father, Shuliang He, died soon after Confucius’s birth, and his mother refused to tell him his father’s name nor where his father was buried. Therefore, growing up in this single and impecunious Confucius was solitary and lack of social relations in his childhood, thus developing his interest in performing rites. As a child, Confucius liked to entertain himself with sacrificial vessels, using them to set out ceremony and practice that he considered to be rites and sacrificial offerings.
Only after his mother’s death were young Confucius told things about his father, then he buried his mother alongside his father, although at considerable expense. After these rites, Confucius finally obtained his family

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