Confuscious said is an expression in English. In China, there is a famous book called "Lun Yu" which is a book made by Confuscious' students to record what he said. Confuscious was a big traveller and taught wherever he went. His influence increased because one of the great and controversial emporers in Chinese history banned other philosophies and only chose to spread Confuscious.
I never knew too much about Confuscious but I did learn some of his thoughts. I had always wondered why he is regarded such an influential philosopher in Chinese history until one day, I had a thought and I realized, isn't that Confuscious' philosophy?
I guess the reason he is so important is, at least, he put it as a philosophical question. Then you can either agree or disagree with it. I have never doubted some of my thoughts before and they just appeared natural in my Chinese mind.
I don't know if Confuscious brought it up to a philosphical level or what he said seeped into our thinking, but it is pretty amazing to see that sometimes what is natural to you may only be the only way of thinking and there are others. I think that's the significance of Confuscious, at least to me.
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