Confucius - Persistent Life

Author: Li Xu
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This book is one of the "Series of Chinese Sages' Life" books. Confucius was born into a family that was already considered "out of fashion" at the time. His ancestors were nobles of the State of Song, but due to internal turmoil in Song, they fled to the State of Lu, and the decline of his family was inevitable. Moreover, it is said that he was born from an "illegitimate union" between his father and a young woman surnamed Yan, and after three years of his birth, his father passed away, leaving an orphan and a mother who did not conform to the norms of propriety in the world.