What is the significance of Confucius traveling around the world?

When Confucius was born, Zhou was in decline. Zhou is a figurehead, he can't control the governors, and governors in other countries are often subject to powerful nobles. Nations contend, and nobles of all countries often make trouble. As a result, the ritual system collapsed, the normative power of traditional customs disappeared, and the world entered anarchy. Faced with this serious problem of the times, Confucius took it as his duty to rebuild a universal order. He thought that staying in Lu had accomplished nothing, so he led a group of students to leave Lu to carry out his political proposition of governing the country with courtesy.

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Confucius traveled around the world from Shandong, and generally visited Wei, Cao, Song, Qi, Zheng, Jin, Chen, Cai and Chu. Now the general route is Qufu-Heze-Changyuan-Shangqiu-Xiayi-Huaiyang-Zhoukou-Shangcai-Luoshan, and then return by the original road. From the age of 55 to 68, Confucius spent more than ten years traveling around the world with several of his closed disciples.

There is no room for the benevolent government advocated by Confucius in troubled times, but in the three months of governing Lu, the powerful Qi was also afraid of Confucius' talent, which shows that Confucius is worthy of the title of outstanding politician. Political dissatisfaction made Confucius devote a large part of his energy to education. Confucius used to be a scout in Lu, but later he traveled around the world with his disciples and asked Lao Tzu for advice in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.