Confucius is a great thinker and educator in the history of our country, and also the founder of the Confucian school in the late Spring and Autumn Period. Confucius, courtesy name Zhongni, was born in 551 BC and died in 479 BC, a native of Qufu, Shandong.Confucius' father, Shu Lianghe, was a doctor in Zouyi County. He married a woman named Yan Zhengzai. After marriage, he had no children for a long time. The couple went to Niqiu Mountain to pray to the true God and became pregnant and gave birth to Confucius.Confucius' parents named Confucius "Qiu" and the word "Zhongni" in memory of Niqiu Mountain.

Confucius advocated strict observance of the rules of "rituals" in politics.Special emphasis is also placed on "benevolence".He believes that "benevolence" means "loving others", and put forward the views of "don't do to others what you don't want yourself to do to yourself".He opposed tyranny and asked rulers to have a limit to the exploitation and oppression of working people.His purpose is to ease class contradictions, but objectively promotes the development of productive forces. Confucius made great contributions to the cause of education in ancient my country.The private school he founded has 3,000 students, and people from all walks of life can come to him to study, which has changed the situation that education was monopolized by the government in the past, and only noble children can receive education. This has epoch-making significance in the history of education in our country. .There are also many important experiences in teaching: pay attention to "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude", advocate learning knowledge to "review the past and learn the new", the learning attitude should be "knowing what you know, not knowing what you don't know", combining learning and thinking, "learning without learning". If you think about it, you will lose it; if you think about it without learning, you will lose it."

Another major contribution of Confucius is the compilation of ancient cultural classics, "Shangshu", "Book of Rites", "Book of Music", "Book of Changes", "Spring and Autumn Annals".Among them, except for the lost "Book of Music", the other "Five Classics" have been handed down to the present.It provides us with precious materials for studying ancient history. Confucius' remarks are mainly recorded in .This book was compiled by his disciples and descendants of Confucianism, and it is a famous Confucian classic in ancient my country.

Confucius' thought, from the Han Dynasty onwards, gradually became the orthodox thought of the feudal society.