Confucius by BN18 Posters and Art Prints

Confucius (simplified and traditional Chinese, 孔子; pinyin, kǒngzǐ; Wade-Giles, K'ung-fu-tzu; literally, "Master Kong"; Qufu, September 28, 551 BC - Lu, 479 BC. C.) was a renowned Chinese thinker whose doctrine is called Confucianism. Coming from a ruined noble family, throughout his life he alternated periods in which he worked as a teacher with others during which he was an official of the small state of Lu, he worked as a carpenter in northeast China, during the time of fragmentation of power under the Zhou dynasty or Warring States period He made four trips to the Indies - initial denomination of the American continent - and although he was possibly not the first European explorer of America, he is considered the discoverer of a new ...