When Confucius was 35 years old, he went to Qi due to civil strife in Lu. In order to get close to Qi Jinggong, he became a retainer of Gao Zhaozi, a nobleman of Qi State. The following year (516 BC), Qi Jinggong asked Confucius about political affairs. Confucius said: "The king should be like the king, and the ministers should be like the ministers.

The father should be like the father, and the son should be like the son." Jinggong appreciated it very much. He wanted to use Confucius, but Qi Prime Minister Yan Ying blocked him, so he gave up. Soon after he was about to take up his post, he returned to Lu and continued to study knowledge and train disciples. When he was about 51 years old, he served as the governor of the Lu Kingdom (now the local magistrate of Shangxi in Wenzhou). Because he was well-organized in politics, "one year, everything was done in all directions." At the age of 52, he was promoted from Zhongdu Zaiti

to Sikong and Da Sikou of Lu State. In 500 BC (the tenth year of Duke Dinggong of Lu), at the meeting between Lu and Qi in Jiagu, Confucius proposed that "those who have civil affairs must have military preparations, and those who have military affairs must have civil preparations." Duke Jinggong of Qi wanted to threaten the king of Lu to submit, but Confucius rebuked Duke Jinggong with

etiquette, which preserved the national integrity, so that the Marquis of Qi had to agree to make an alliance and make peace, and return the three places of Yun, Guiyin and Guiyin.

Return the State of Lu.

When Confucius was 54 years old, he was entrusted by Ji Huanzi to take photos of ministers. In order to improve the authority of the monarch, he proposed the idea of ??"dropping the three capitals" and suppressing the three Huan (officials of the three Lu families). However, he was opposed by the officials of the three families and failed. 55

At the age of 55, the kings and ministers of the Lu State accepted the beauties and horses presented by the State of Qi, and they were infatuated with sensuality all day long. Confucius was greatly disappointed,

so he abandoned his official position and left Lu, leading his disciples to travel around the country, looking for other opportunities to display their talents. During this period, he "worked for more than seventy kings",

but found none. In 484 BC (the eleventh year of Duke Ai of Lu), Ji Kangzi of Lu State listened to the persuasion of Ran You, a disciple of Confucius, and sent someone to welcome him back from Wei State.

When Confucius returned to the State of Lu, although he was respected as an "old man of the country", he was still not allowed to be reused. He no longer seeks an official position, but concentrates his energy on continuing to engage in education and documentation. He trained more than 3,000 disciples throughout his life, and 72 of them were proficient in the six arts (ritual, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics). In teaching practice, a complete set of educational theories has been summarized, such as teaching in accordance with aptitude

Teaching in accordance with aptitude, paying equal attention to learning and thinking, drawing inferences from one example, inspiring and inducing, and teaching principles of being tireless in learning and teaching

The spirit, as well as the learning attitude of "knowing what you know, and not knowing what you don't know" and "not being ashamed to ask" are praised by future generations

He successively deleted "Poems" and "Books", revised "Li" and "Music", revised "Spring and Autumn", and comprehensively organized ancient Chinese documents. The old and fond of "Yi" has reached the level of "Three Excellent Works compiled by Wei".

At the age of 69, his only son Kong Li passed away. At the age of 71, his favorite disciple Yan Hui died of illness. Confucius was extremely sad and lamented: "Heaven is mourning me! Heaven is mourning me!" In this year, someone captured a monster called Lin in the west of Lu State. Soon

Die. He believed that the appearance and death of Qilin, which symbolized kindness and auspiciousness, was an ominous sign of chaos in the world, so he stopped compiling the Spring and Autumn Annals. When I was 72 years old, I suddenly learned that the general manager Zi Zhongyou had died in a national disaster in Weiwei, and I was even more sad.

In the second month of the lunar calendar the following year (479 BC), Confucius fell ill for 7 days and died.

The main words and deeds of Confucius throughout his life were compiled into the book "The Analects" by his disciples and subsequent disciples, which became a classic of the Confucian school for later generations.