Confucius’ political thoughts are benevolent and loving. Educational thought: teach students in accordance with their aptitude, draw inferences from one example, combine learning with thinking, and review the past to learn the new.

The core content of Confucius' political thought is "propriety" and "benevolence". In terms of the strategy of governing the country, he advocated "governing with virtue" and governing the country with morality and etiquette is the most noble way of governing the country. road. This kind of governance strategy is also called "Government by virtue" or "Government by etiquette". This strategy imparts virtues and etiquette to the people, strictly follows the hierarchy, and clearly divides the nobility and the common people into the rulers and the ruled. It broke an important original boundary between nobles and common people.

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The core of Confucius' aesthetic thought is the unity of "beauty" and "goodness", as well as the unity of form and content. Confucius advocated "poetry", that is, combining literature and art with political morality, using literature and art as a means to change society and politics, and an important way to cultivate sentiment. Moreover, Confucius believed that a perfect person should cultivate his character in poetry, etiquette, and music. Confucius's aesthetic thoughts had a huge influence on later literary and artistic theories.

Politically unsatisfied, Confucius spent a large part of his energy on education. Confucius once served as a military officer in the state of Lu. Later, he traveled around the country with his disciples and entered the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to consult with Laozi. Eventually he returned to the State of Lu and concentrated on coaching. Confucius broke the educational monopoly and pioneered private education. He had as many as 3,000 disciples, among whom the famous "Seventy-two Sages" were included. Many of the seventy-two people are high-ranking officials in various countries and have continued the glory of the Confucian school.