This book is a biography of Confucius, the founder and greatest spiritual guide of Confucianism. It also includes a selected quotation of him and his disciples. It is believed that he had three thousand disciples, and of them seventy-two are the most brilliant. He travelled all over China, which was scattered into many petty countries and a few great powers, for fourteen years. His thought and doctrine has had great influence on China. He was also an excellent philologist, working diligently on collecting masterpieces prior to his age.