Eastern Lu, but Confucius and his mother didn't know where he was buried because they didn't go to his funeral. They didn't go to the funeral because they were expelled from the family; and if they went back, other people might think that they wanted to fight for the possessions of Ho.
             When Confucius was a child, he used to play at making sacrificial offerings and performing ceremonies. He wanted to be an officer in charge of the rites in Lu. He also helped his mother to do some housework.
             When Confucius was sixteen, his mother died. His neighbor told him where was his father's tomb was, and helped him to bury his mother with his father. A touching time in his life, however, he proceeded with great strength and courage. The year was a long winding road for Confucius' emotions.
             When Confucius was seventeen, a baron of Lu called Chi P'ing Tzu was looking for a man who was familiar with rite and ritual, so he had a feast for the scholars in town. Yang Ho, a corrupt official who handled everything for the baron, stopped Confucius and said, "The baron is giving a feast to the scholars but not you!" So Confucius left. This is the first humiliation he got when he earned his own living in his youth.
             Confucius married a girl with the last name of Ch'i when he was twenty years old. This marriage was arranged by Confucius' mother before she died. His son was born in the second year and Confucius named him Li. (It was a name of a kind of fish in Chinese. In English it is called a carp.)
             Confucius got his first job when he was twenty years old. He was in charge of the granary of the house of Chi, and he was famous because of the fairness of his measures. Then he became the person who looked after the cattle and the sheep, and the cattle and the sheep multiplied quickly. After a while, he got a promotion to be a minister of public work like construction of buildings. One day, whe
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