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What is Confucius' achievement?
I. Important contributions in ideological education and culture:

1. Political thought: Confucius cares about people's sufferings. He put forward the theory of "benevolence (including all virtues)", arguing that "love" requires rulers to observe people's feelings, cherish people's resources, govern the country by virtue and oppose tyranny.

2. In education: Confucius was a great educator. He founded a private school and recruited disciples, regardless of rank. It initiated civilian education and broke the aristocratic education of "learning to be excellent and being an official". He put forward a series of valuable educational ideas, such as "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude", "reviewing the old and learning the new" and advocating heuristic teaching.

Second, sorting out ancient cultural classics: compiling the book "Spring and Autumn Annals" and revising classic documents such as poems, calligraphy, rites and changes. His remarks are included in The Analects of Confucius.

Expanding information Confucius initiated the atmosphere of private lectures and advocated benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. He led some disciples around the world for thirteen years, and revised the six classics of Poetry, Calligraphy, Rites and Music, Book of Changes and Spring and Autumn Annals in his later years.

According to legend, Confucius once asked Laozi for gifts, with 3,000 disciples, including 72 sages. After the death of Confucius, his disciples and their re-disciples recorded the words and deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and compiled the Confucian classic The Analects.

In ancient times, Confucius was regarded as a "saint of heaven" and a "muduo of heaven". He was one of the most learned scholars in the society at that time, and was respected by later rulers as Confucius' sage, the most holy, the most holy teacher, the most holy teacher, the teacher of kings and the teacher of generations. His thoughts have a far-reaching influence on China and the world, and he is listed as the first of the "Top Ten Cultural Celebrities in the World".

With the expansion of Confucius' influence, "Confucius Sacrifice Ceremony" once became a "big sacrifice" at the same level as China's ancestor worship.

Confucius constructed a complete ideological system of "virtue and virtue": he advocated the virtue and virtue of "benevolence and courtesy" at the individual level. The ideological system of virtue and Taoism is based on the theory of goodness of human nature ("one yin and one yang refers to the Tao, and those who follow it are also good, and those who succeed are also people"), aiming at establishing the human pole ("three-pole Tao"), and connecting with human nature, heaven and tunnel, and the golden mean will become a complete methodological ideological system in due course.

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