1. Confucius and Confucianism

2. Confucius 551BCE-479BCE estimated
Lived during the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese History.
Was a teacher, editor, politician and philosopher

3. Core Belief
Human beings are teachable, improvable, and perfectible through personal and communal endeavor especially through self-cultivation and self-creation.
Confucianism is humanistic and non-theistic, and does not involve belief in the supernatural or in a personal god.

4. Six Texts of Confucius Classic Poetry Book of Documents
Book of Rites-Laws
Book of Music
Classic of Change
Spring and Autumn Annals-Year by Year review of the land

5. Five Constants of Confucian Ethics
Humaneness-Ren
Justice-Yi
Etiquette-Li
Knowledge-Zhi
Integrity-Xin

6. Four Virtues(Sizi) Loyalty-Zhong Filial Piety-Xiao Continency-Jie
Righteousness-Yi

7. Gender Roles
Confucians taught that a virtuous woman was suppose to uphold “three subordinations”-be subordinate to her father before marriage, to her husband after marriage, and to her son after her husband died.
Chaste widows were revered as heroes during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
In 2009, women were finally allowed to be classified as descendants of Confucius.