Confucius

The formal hymn praising Confucius under the honorific Da Cheng.

This source names Confucius directly: "Confucius on his own life, and the source of the Chinese idiom for each decade of age."

This source names Confucius directly: "Confucius' account of his own project: not to invent a teaching but to hand on the way of antiquity."

This source names Confucius directly: "Beichen founded the first Holy Hall of Confucius congregation in Shenzhen in 2009, part of a wider proliferation of Confucian academies and reopened temples underway since 2000."

This source names Confucius directly: "launched the Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius campaign in 1973, openly in January 1974, recasting Chinese history as a struggle between Confucianism and Legalism and denouncing Confucius as a..."

This source names Confucius directly: "through ritual and social role. Confucius himself declined to define ren directly, preferring to answer each questioner according to their own character, so the Analects preserves the concept..."

Recited at ceremonies honoring Confucius and his leading disciples.

This source names Confucius directly: "Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Confucius, consulted 2026-08-13."

This source names Confucius directly: "This is the Confucius entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, written by Mark Csikszentmihalyi, a scholar of early Chinese philosophy, published and maintained by the Metaphysics Research..."

This source names Confucius directly: "Wikipedia's article on Confucius, community-edited."

This source names Confucius directly: "Confucius, born around 551 BCE in Zou in the state of Lu, taught more than three thousand students across a private teaching career begun around age thirty, some seventy of whom later chroniclers..."

This source names Confucius directly: "on the Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius campaign, community-edited."

The hymn is performed at the Shidian sacrifice honoring Confucius under the title Da Cheng, Great Completion.

This source names Confucius directly: "on Duanmu Ci (Zigong), a disciple of Confucius, consulted 2026-08-12."

The texts his academicians were appointed to teach were those the tradition attached to this teacher, three and a half centuries earlier.

This source names Confucius directly: "of Confucius, grounding Fei Mu's 1940 Kong Fuzi and Hu Mei's 2010 Confucius as pre-socialist and post-socialist examples of Chinese political and philosophical filmmaking, drawing on film studies..."

This source names Confucius directly: "Standing beside the Beijing Temple of Confucius on what is now Guozijian Street, it is the only centrally administered imperial academy from premodern China still preserved on its original site."

Confucius made the family cult a school of virtue; his teaching orders Chinese social and ritual life to this day.

This source names Confucius directly: "founding of the first Holy Hall of Confucius congregation in Shenzhen in 2009, its 2010 registration as a public-interest non-governmental organisation, and the 1 November 2015 gathering of..."

The Analects records Confucius saying under threat that if Heaven had not meant the culture of King Wen to perish, the men of Kuang could not harm him.

This source names Confucius directly: "Compare Analects 15:23, where Confucius states the same principle negatively, do not do to others what you would not want done to yourself, and Hillel's near-identical negative formulation in the..."

Tradition attaches a qilin to the birth of Confucius and records the capture of another shortly before his death.

Traditionally held to be the birthplace, home and burial place of Confucius.

This source names Confucius directly: "The scholar ritualist class from which Confucius himself came and which Confucianism, as a school of textual and ritual learning, continued and formalized."

This source names Confucius directly: "said to have been edited by Confucius and canonised as one of the Five Classics (Wujing) of the Confucian tradition alongside the I Ching and the Classic of Rites."

This source names Confucius directly: "with Taoist deities, the Buddha and Confucius all venerated at the temple, and it is classed as a Taoist organization in standard reference accounts of religion in Hong Kong."

This source names Confucius directly: "The Analects is the primary record of Confucius's sayings and conversations, compiled by his students and their own students after his death rather than written by Confucius himself, which is why..."

This source names Confucius directly: "by promoting the teachings of Confucius, and separately to relieve poverty and assist the elderly through the provision of food and accommodation to those in necessitous circumstances."

This source names Confucius directly: "the I Ching, traditionally ascribed to Confucius, explaining the logic behind the fixed order of the sixty four hexagrams as a continuous chain of cause and consequence running from cosmic origins..."

This source names Confucius directly: "Confucian shrine for the veneration of Confucius and past sages with a working school for classical education, a fusion of worship and instruction that is itself the point rather than an accident of..."

Chow Yun-fat plays Confucius across his career as a magistrate, minister, exiled teacher and eventual compiler of the Spring and Autumn Annals, unlike this collection's Muhammad and Nanak films, which either decline to show their subject or use computer generated imagery rather than a performed likeness.

UNESCO's own record names Confucius directly as the sacrificial rite's honouree: the documentary shows the annual ceremony held every 28 September to mark his birthday.