The Spring and Autumn Period was so chaotic. Did Confucius have nothing to do? Why does he want to travel around the world?

There were many wars in the Spring and Autumn Period, but it was not as chaotic as it was said. Until the Warring States Period, it was normal for scholars to travel to various countries to study. Just like our current college students go to college, wars are constantly happening all over the world, like Killings like those in Rwanda occasionally happen. You see, we are all hiding at home and not going out. Don’t you want to travel, go to college, or go on business trips to other places for work? The people in ancient times were still very simple. Unless there was a feud between the two places, don't think that ancient times were much worse than now.

Confucius traveled around the world to realize his ideals and ambitions, to put it mildly. To put it bluntly, it is to seek official status and fame.

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, including 72 sages, known as the famous Seventy-two Sages. Many of the seventy-two people are high-ranking officials in various countries and have continued the glory of the Confucian school.

The reasons why Confucius traveled around the world:

The first is to realize his ideals and promote his moral concepts.

Confucius lived in the late Spring and Autumn Period, when the Zhou royal family existed in name only, the vassal states fought against each other, and the ritual and music system established in the early Zhou Dynasty was completely destroyed. He proposed to restore Zhou rituals and implement the political proposition of benevolent politics and moral governance. But it was not accepted by the ruler of Lu State, so Confucius chose to travel around to promote his ideas. I hope the monarch can implement benevolent governance and avoid war.

The second is to give his students the opportunity to show themselves so that they can have a good future.

In order to enter politics, he led his disciples to run from the north to the south, from one country to another. In order to achieve the purpose of entering politics, he did not hesitate to meet Weiguo Nanzi, who had a bad reputation in the society, and even went to Even when Foji, who betrayed the Jin State, called to him, he "wanted to go". Although he believes that he is "unclear" and "unlucky", he has the confidence to change bad people and will not join in the bad deeds. He plans to use various methods to win over bad people and reform them.

Thirdly, he was forced by the situation, because he could not stay in Lu State and needed to seek refuge abroad.

At that time, Yang Hu, a retainer of Ji Huanzi, rebelled in the state of Lu. Confucius clearly opposed Yang Hu. Ji Huanzi, the ruling official of the state of Lu, believed that Confucius had the same political views as himself, so he asked the king of Lu to appoint him as the prime minister of the central capital. . Confucius governed Zhongdu for one year and made outstanding achievements. He was continuously promoted to Sikong and Great Sikou. Once Confucius gained power, he launched the "Three Capitals" campaign to safeguard the interests of the king of Lu and weaken the power of the officials.

After becoming the chief minister and serving as the "prime minister" at the Jiagu meeting, he achieved success and became more confident, so he dared to touch the officials of the three families and launched the activities of the Three Capitals. Once he was excluded, he realized that Lu was not the place to realize his political ideals, so he found another way and tried other countries.

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Extended information:

Confucius started his travels from the state of Lu, and roughly visited the states of Wei, Cao, and Song State, Qi State, Zheng State, Jin State, Chen State, Cai State, Chu State, and other places. The current general route is Qufu - Heze - Changyuan - Shangqiu - Xiayi - Huaiyang - Zhoukou - Shangcai - Luoshan, and then return the same way. "From the age of 55 to 68, Confucius took several of his close disciples and spent more than ten years traveling around the state of Lu.

From the book "Confucius Historical Atlas" "Confucius traveled around the world Judging from the route map marked "Fig. It was a big country, but Confucius only reached the border of Chu State. Confucius also planned to go west to Jin State, but due to the bad situation, he just sighed at the edge of the Yellow River, "How beautiful! The water is vast, and the hills are not good, and the fate is at stake." Husband!" In the end, he didn't even cross the Yellow River.