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    Confucius lived from 551-479 B.C. He was a philosopher, political thinker and educator whose ideas have greatly influenced not only Chinese culture but world civilization. Confucius lived during the “Spring” and “Autumn” period of Chinese history, when east central China was divided into over a dozen small warring states. The great disorder and suffering he saw influenced his political ideas, which emphasized order, hierarchy and the rule of a benevolent sovereign. Confucius was a philosopher who

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    Zhou dynasties. The main music genre and them were music dance, worship, and ritual musics. In the period of 西周, collected and developed the ritual music into a set of systematic social rules; Rigid ritual music system; use music according to social position was invented and most famous The Book of Songs was also written in this period. In The Spring and Autumn period and the Warring states period, regional music and ya yue was famous. Historical records show, the “eight sound” classification merited

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    In China, 770-476 BCE were known as the Spring and Autumn period. This was the time of the Zhou Dynasty. Then from 476-361 BCE, it was the start of the Warring States Period. This occurred because the Zhou Dynasty were separated into 8 states (Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Wei, Yue and Zhao), where they had many wars with each other, trying to gain power and land. With China being in a chaotic state, many religions and philosophies started to be brought up, one of the is Confucianism. Confucianism was

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    Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras. This was during the period known as “Hundred Schools of Thought.” “Regional rulers of the Spring and Autumn period enhanced their ability to obtain natural resources, to recruit men for their armies, and to oversee conquered areas.” (pg. 165) Researchers started to help the rulers and because of that, the rulers began perceiving the researchers comprehension of punishment, ritual, astronomy, medicine, and divination.

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    The most influential minds in the Chinese mental tradition vaunt under the Zhou, particularly towards the last period of the Zhou Dynasty, considered a repetition of intellectual and artistic awakening. Many of the ideas developed by figures copy Laozi, Confucius, Mencius and Mozi, who all lived during the Eastern Zhou duration, would suit the character of Chinese civilization up to the bestow day. The Zhou people were not invaders; they were Chinese-mumble relations descendant from the Longshan

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    Confucius (551-479BC) was a Chinese teacher, politician and philosopher; he has lived and worked during the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period (770-481 BC). Confucius father Kong He was an officer in the Lu military. Kong He died when Confucius was three years old and later his mother Yan Zhengzai raised Confucius in poverty. Confucius is the most influential Chinese philosopher, who’s teaching had a great effect and spread out in the Chinese life and culture for well over two thousand years, and has

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    The Cores Of Confucianism

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    Introduction From the 6th century to 221 BC, the Spring and Autumn period to the Warring States period, the Ancient China experienced a lengthy chaos. Nonetheless, in such bloody era, the brilliant Chinese philosophers sprang up and started a Golden Age of philosophy. People call this phenomenon as the Contention of a Hundred schools of Thoughts. The philosophers discussed about the best way for a country to survive, for an emperor to rule and for people to live. Those thoughts impacted the lifestyle

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    through his philosophy to better China and its people. Confucius’s Analects is a critique of the dire rulers and China’s government, and tries to provide solutions to better China. Confucius lived in China during the Spring and Autumn period, which is 571-449 BCE. During this period China’s government and its rulers were corrupt, and because of this Confucius’s philosophy heavily revolves at trying to fix the current problem his society faces by trying to issue solutions within his philosophy. One

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    Conficius grew up in a time where feudal lords where constantly fighting each other for control because the government was weak. As a result, Conficius never forgot his childhood misery caused by the horrendous atrocities committed by the rulers. Since his mom work was not enough to survive for both of them, he started working at a really young age, which provided him with the opportunity to understand the people’s lives. Instead of learning the art of fighting, Conficius read through many books

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    Xiuyuan Guo Professor Cook WRA 101 November 21, 2016 Jade: The Chinese Diamond Jade, a beautiful green stone is China’s most popular material for jewelry better than other artifacts. As time passed, it became more important within the culture including religious symbols and civilization. There were a lot of other materials used for decoration like gold, silver, bronze etc, but no one could replace the position of jade in Chinese people’s minds. Jade can represent a lot of symbols. We can see it from

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