What happened to Confucius sages through the ages?

Confucius is a great thinker, philosopher, educator, politician, and the founder of Confucianism. He is a masterpiece of ancient culture, and he was known as "the sage of heaven" and "the muduo of heaven" when he was alive. He was one of the most learned scholars in the society at that time, and was honored as "the sage of Confucius" by later rulers, ranking first among the "Top Ten Cultural Celebrities in the World". However, such a person who seems to have no shortcomings in his whole body has also made obvious achievements.

Today, let's talk about a few anecdotes in the life of Confucius, the Great Sage.

When Confucius traveled around the world, he was once trapped in Chencai (now southeast Henan) and didn't eat for seven consecutive days. One day at noon, Yan Hui, a disciple of Confucius, finally got some rice after some twists and turns, and then he was very excited to start cooking porridge. When the rice was almost cooked, Confucius actually saw Yan Hui grabbing the rice in the pot with his hands. He pretended to see Yan Hui for fear of embarrassment.

Yan Hui came to invite Confucius to dinner. Confucius stood up and said, "My ancestors told me in a dream just now that food should be given to distinguished people first. How can I eat it myself? " Hearing this, Yan Hui quickly explained, "Master, you misunderstood me. I saw the coal ash fall into the pot just now, so I picked up the dirty rice grains and ate them. Confucius was a little embarrassed to see that he had wronged Yan Hui. He sighed, "People can trust their eyes, but sometimes they are unreliable! "

If Yan Hui is the youngest handsome disciple of Confucius, then his least handsome disciple is Tantai Miming.

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, people from Wucheng, Lu, were thirty-nine years later than Confucius, the Great Sage. He was born incongruously and has an ugly face. So when he worshipped Confucius as a teacher, although Confucius didn't reject him in order to keep his idea of "teaching without discrimination", he always ignored him. Tan Taiming was disappointed with Confucius' attitude towards people, so he left Confucius and began to teach himself.

Confucius didn't take the destruction of Tantai seriously, but his beloved disciple Zi You worshipped him very much. When he returned to Qufu from his post in Wucheng Army to visit Confucius, Confucius asked him what talents he had met. Ziyou took the opportunity to praise Tan Taiming's character, and the stubborn Confucius was unmoved.

Although Tan Taiming is ugly, he is broad-minded. Not only did he not bear a grudge against Confucius, but he also took Confucius as his teacher and spread Confucianism in South Vietnam. Tantai Miming, a man with profound knowledge and noble character, soon got the love of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and his reputation grew bigger and bigger, spreading all over the princes.

When Confucius heard the news, he suddenly repented and was filled with emotion: accommodating people and losing his feathers.

Tan Taiming was a northerner who spread Confucius and Confucianism in the south, and Ziyou was a southerner who came to the north to study with Confucius.

One day, Confucius came to Wucheng, a small town where his students traveled as officials. It is a pleasure to have a teacher from far away. Ziyou was very happy and took his teacher Confucius around the city, which made the teacher feel the effect of governing the people with Confucianism and Taoism.

What Ziyou didn't expect was that Confucius was surprised when he heard the "sound of string songs" and said: Why do you want to cut the chicken with an ox knife? It turned out that he thought that a small town like Wucheng was not worthy of the rule of rites and music, and Ziyou made a mountain out of a molehill by doing so. Ziyou is a straightforward personality, so I asked my teacher: When I was studying in your place, you said that "a gentleman will be kind to others when he learns Taoism, and a villain will be more manageable when he learns Taoism", so I practiced Taoism here. Confucius realized that he was wrong, so he blushed and said to his disciples around him, "I am right to lobby." I was just joking. Don't take it seriously. "