Example sentences for: confucius

How can you use “confucius” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The classics of Confucius, while seldom addressing spiritual and metaphysical matters, set standards for social and political conduct that still underlie many of the Chinese ways of doing and perceiving.

  • Unlike Confucius, about whose life many specific and even colorful details are known, the philosopher Laozi (Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu) is an enigma.

  • Today’s Beijing would seem to have little in common with the Beihai lakeshore of Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, the Forbidden City of the Ming, the Summer Palace of the Qing, the Temple of Confucius, or even the patriotic tomb of Chairman Mao.

  • In another hall of the Confucius Temple is a complete edition of the Confucian classics carved in stone.

  • Everyone who was anyone in Chinese history, from Confucius to Chairman Mao, has stood on its summit.


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