Ancient China · Philosopher and Teacher

Confucius 夫子

Attested BC 551 - BC 479

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Confucius was a Philosopher and Teacher.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 551 to BC 479 夫子
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passages 229-230

Assessments and attributes

Item Confucius temple 夫子廟 · Relation Honored in · temple repaired in Tongzhou anecdote; not Confucius's own dated activity
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passages 229, 231

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 126, passage 229

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 126Volume 126 Book of Later Zhou 28: Biographies 6: Feng Dao · 2 passages

〈（《五代史補》：馮道之鎮同州也，有酒務吏乞以家財修夫子廟，道以狀付判官參詳其事。 (Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties: When Feng Dao governed Tongzhou, a wine-monopoly clerk asked to repair the Confucius temple with his family wealth. Dao referred the petition to his judge.)

判官素滑稽，因以一絕書判後云：「荊棘森森繞杏壇，儒官高貴盡偷安，若教酒務修夫子，覺我慚惶也大難。」 The judge was witty and appended a quatrain: "Thorns grow thick around the apricot altar; Confucian officials all steal their ease. If the wine office repairs the Master, my shame would be hard to bear."