“The evil life of Confucius”

Amidst this great social revolution, the government of the slaveholding class was represented by Confucius. In 551 B.C.E. in the state of Lu, Confucius was born into a declining slaveholding family. He was second eldest among his siblings [and hence the name “Old Number Two”]. Confucius constantly bore in mind the fact that he himself was of a later generation of the slaveholding aristocracy. When he was young, he loved to set up little bowls and dishes as sacrificial vessels and imitate the kowtowing rituals to his aristocratic ancestry.