Confucius

	!style	"background:#ccf border-bottom:2px solid" align=center colspan=2Confucius
	align	center style="border-top:1px solid": Zǐ)
	align	center style="border-top:1px solid"''' (孔)<br><small>(Pinyin: Kǒng)
	align	center style="border-top:1px solid" Given Name :<br>(名)style="border-top:1px solid"'''Qiu''' (丘)<br><small>(Pinyin: Qiū)
	align	center style="border-top:3px solid" Courtesy Name :<br>(字)style="border-top:3px solid"'''Zhongni''' (仲尼)<br><small>(Pinyin: Zhòngní)</small>
	align	center style="border-top:1px solid" Posthumous Name :<br>(謚)style="border-top:1px solid"'''The Ultimate Sage <br>Master of Yore&²'''
	align	right <small>(Ch: </small>至聖先師<small> <br>Py: Zhìshèng Xiānshī)
	align	center style="border-top:1px solid" Styled :style="border-top:1px solid"'''Master Kong'''³
	align	right <small>(Ch: </small>孔子<small>, <br>less frequently </small>孔夫子<small>
	align	right <small>Py: Kǒngzǐ, less fr <br>Kǒngfūzǐ
	align	right <small> WG : K'ung-tzu, less fr<br> K'ung Fu-tzu)</small>
	colspan	2 align=left style="border-top:3px solid"<small><sup>'''1'''</sup>This Chinese word (子), the ancestral name of<br>Confucius, should not be confused with the word<br>"master" as used in the style of Confucius "Master<br>Kong" (孔子) These are two different words written <br>with the same character in Chinese Zi was the<br>surname of the ruling family of Shang
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	colspan	2 align=left <small><sup>'''2'''</sup> Posthumous name since 1530 Between 1307 <br>and 1530 , his posthumous name was: "The Lord<br>of Culture Ultimate Sage and Great<br>Accomplisher" (</small>大成至聖文宣王<small>) which is <br>the name on his tomb
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	colspan	2 align=left <small><sup>'''3'''</sup> Romanised as "Confucius"

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	confucianism

	chinese philosophy

	ancient philosophers

	chinese philosophers

	classical humanists

	secularism

	state of lu

	guqin

	founders of religions

	551 bc births

	479 bc deaths

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