What is Confucianism? Maybe it sound like a part of religion but it's not. It is a major system of ethics based on the teaching of Confucius who lived from 551 to 479 B.C.E. He was a greatest man in China history. His thoughts had strongest influenced in china society over two thousands years that disciplined every individual characters to value of life which including humanity, love, moral and ethics. He provided politics institution some background to rule people in comparable humanity. Confucianism has spread through widely from China to other neighbor countries such as Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and among Western society.
Confucius is deprived from Latinized form of Chinese characters, Kong Fuzi which mean great Master Kong, who was born in a small State "Lu" China. He grew up in a poor family after his father passed away when he was young. Therefore, He knew only education to gain the knowledge in order to have a better life. He was desire for study from his earliest childhood. He believed that music and poetry were two skills necessary for complete education. He was passionate making poetries. He edited a " Book of poetry" to become in the five popular classic books, which summarized the culture of china and poetry in Confucius" time, which is called " The Shujing, Chun Qui, I Ching, and Liji" In early years, Confucius was a supervised of tax collector who was assigned by the governor. What we call today is an accounting. After few years working collecting tax from farmers, he noticed the government system was disorder. People was starving and suffering because the government was corrupted and bribed. It was a time that he asked himself "what a man without wealth or military power do change this world from chaos?".
During this time, China was falling into apart which each province or state is ruled under different governors. The civil wars were unrest until the ruler conquered others" territory.
