red philosophers.
             Foremost in this era, Confucius was born. Kung Fu-tzu was the given name of the great moral philosopher and teacher, Confucius is merely a romanized version of this. He is thought to have been born in the principality of Lu, in what is now Shantung Province, in Northeast China. This is the only information about Confucius that is known to be unyielding fact; almost all of the biographical information on this man is derived from the Life of Confucius by the historian Szema Ch'ien. Nearly all the data contained in this book is held to be accurate, being derived from dependable oral traditions.
             Confucius is said to have embarked on his quest for knowledge, order and harmony in an effort to dispel the conf
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