Spring and Autumn Period and Confucius Father

ciusConfucius was known for he’s teachings, preserved in the Analects, focused on creating ethical models of family and public interaction, and setting educational standards. Confucius was born in 551 B.C. in the Lu state of China and died on 479 B.C. There was a historian named Ssu-ma Chi’en and according to Records of the Historian, Confucius was born into a royal family of the Chou Dynasty also Confucius was a descendant of a branch of the royal house of Shang, the dynasty (a family of rulers) that ruled China prior to the Chou, and a dynasty which ruled China from around 1122 B.C.E. to 221 B.C.E. His family, the K'ung, moved to the small state of Lu, located in the modern province of Shantung in northeastern China. It said and also believes that Confucius father divorced his first wife at an advanced age then, Confucius father he then married a fifteen-year-old girl from the Yen clan, who gave birth to Confucius.

CONFUCIUS TIMELINE
551 :
Confucius was born in 551 BC
548 :
Lost his father in 548 BC
519 :
Started teaching ancient rituals to a minister's sons in 519 BC
517 :
Fled, along with Prince of Lu, to the neighboring state in 517 BC
500 :
Appointed as the Minister of Justice, of Lu state in 500 BC
495 :
Left his post as well as the state of Lu in 495 BC
483 :
Returned to the state of Lu in 483 BC
479 :
Breathed his last in 479