Confucius adapted to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were not suitable for him, because monarchs of all countries who were busy with war had no time to listen to his sermons. Although Confucianism became the official thought of later generations after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, if Confucius was born in these dynasties, his theory would not work-after all, later generations were all dressed in Confucian robes and doing legalist work.

Confucius' dissatisfaction with the Spring and Autumn Period is mainly due to the collapse of rites-to put it bluntly, the rules have changed, and the emperor is not like the emperor and the vassal is not like the vassal. This is unacceptable to him, and a turtle raised by Master Lu has angered Confucius.

The Analects of Confucius has such a record:

Confucius said, "Zang Wenzhong lives in Cai, and the mountains are full of algae. How could he know? "

The meaning of this passage is:

Confucius said with grief and indignation: Zang Wenzhong collected a turtle and supported it with a building with the same specifications as the Emperor Temple. I really don't know how he got his wisdom.

After all, what Confucius was angry about was not how Zang Wenzhong, the great shepherd of Lu, raised a turtle, but how Zang Wenzhong used the specifications of the Temple of the Emperor to arrange accommodation for the turtle. This is not the following offense. What is this?

This is something that Confucius can't tolerate.

However, in the troubled times at that time, emperors were all decorations, not to mention Confucius.

So Confucius can only be angry.

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