First, cultural contribution

There were no written historical materials in China before 84 1 year BC. Ancient culture and civilization were passed down through Confucius' poems, books, rituals, changes, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Six Classics. Confucian culture has always been the main line of China culture in the traditional culture of "Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism" in China from the time of Confucius to the present. Confucius is the inheritor of ancient culture in China.

Second, the conceptual contribution.

Historically, the Xia Dynasty respected "destiny" and the Shang Dynasty believed in "ghosts and gods", but in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Duke of Zhou began to "ritual and music system", "morality and prudence" and turned to "ritual and music civilization". This is a great leap in China's culture and civilization. Confucius did not talk about the so-called "destiny" and "ghosts and gods" by will and efficacy, but took a keen interest in the ritual and music civilization of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Confucius' message:

The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, including 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. According to Records of the Historian, "there were more than 3,000 poems in ancient times", which was compiled and edited by Confucius to form the version of the Book of Songs that has been handed down to this day, also known as "300 poems".

Confucius (5565438 BC+April 479 BC165438 BC+479 BC), surnamed Kong, was born in Taocheng, Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and his ancestral home (now Xiayi County, Henan Province). He was a great thinker in ancient China. ?

Confucius initiated private lectures and advocated benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. There are 3,000 disciples, including 72 sages. He led some disciples to travel around the world for fourteen years, and revised the six classics (poetry, calligraphy, ceremony, music, Yi, Spring and Autumn) in his later years. After his death, his disciples and re-disciples recorded the words, deeds and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples and compiled The Analects.