![]() On Confucius' birthday anniversary, there will be many activities for commemorating Confucius in Confucian Temples all over China. Sacrifice activity is a reverent and memorial action toward great or beloved people who are deceased. Confucius was both an itinerant teacher and an official. Courts and rulers employed traveling teachers to teach or be officials. Making a mistake might mean their deaths or the destruction of their kingdom, so there was a demand for knowledge, political strategies, and power. They sought for knowledge about how best to rule their kingdoms and survive in the dangerous times. The kings and rulers battled for survival and dominance in the region, and they wanted to know what to do. Dozens of regions of their empire transformed to be independent kingdoms and tried to conquer each other. He tried to teach ancient truth in a time of political confusion and crisis as the Zhou Dynasty was falling from power. The rulers and subjects of the various regions sought for knowledge and power in uncertain times. ![]() Confucius was born in an era of philosophical creativity. ![]()
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