Confucius

Confucius is the Latinization of the Chinese man named? Kong Qi. He was a major philosopher, thinker, and idealist from the Spring and Autumn Period of ancient Chinese history.

He developed Confucianism, which developed further under other thinkers and followers like Mencius. His many publications created a philosophy and lifestyle of traditional, virtuous, and self-cultivating thought. He suggested a life of honor, virtue, courage, self-consciousness, and tradition. His beliefs spread throughout Asia, with Confucians becoming a major Oriental philosophical movement competing during the Qin Dynasty with Legalism.

He had a descendent whom was a major member of the early Kuomintang Republic of China, H.H. Kung, whose name Kung was a surname of many people whom shared ancestry with Confucius himself.