Unattractive, awkward and shy, Confucius was also set apart from other children by his insatiable curiosity and love of learning. His father died when he was just three, and his mother and he were disowned by his wives, so they left for the prosperous city of Qufu. The product of a big ugly lump of a 70-year-old retired warrior named Kong He and his 16-year-old concubine, Confucius – from Kong Fuzi, literally ‘Master Kong’ – was born in 551 BC in Zou, Lu State, in what is present day Shandong province.
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