"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor and politician and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese story.

Born in September 551 BC and died at the age of 72.

Confucius's principles had a basis in common Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor worship, respect of elders by their children and of husbands by their wives. He also recommended family as a basis for ideal government. He espoused the well-known principle "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself", an early version of the Golden Rule.

Confucianism is an ethical and philosophical system, sometimes described as a religion, developed from the teachings of Confucius. Confucianism originated as an "ethical-sociopolitical teaching" during the Spring and Autumn Period, but later developed metaphysical and cosmological elements in the Han Dynasty. Following the official abandonment of Legalism in China after the Qin Dynasty, Confucianism became the official state ideology of the Han.