survival of the fittest

"I do not know death.
Therefore I do not know life.
Therefore I do not speak it."　

This was attitude of Confucius about "field of God".

"Humanity to others."

If I oversimplified teachings of Confucius.
It becomes like this.
Confucius kept thinking about it in this age of war.

"Humanity to others.
This is only way to improve the world.　
There is a good role model of the Duke of Zhou to us.　
You should do the politics in this thought."　

Confucius preached so to kings.
(To those in real power.)

"Anachronism."

However，they did reflect teachings of Confucius in their politics.
Never was it.

After all，Confucius had to leave from the political arena.
After this，Confucius made a journey from place to place with his disciples.
And he died leaving "Words"　
　

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After the death of Confucius，troubled times had been chaotic increasingly.
　
Superpower of this time, "Jin".（晋）　
Of course，Jin also was vassal of Zhou Dynasty originally.
And this Jin was country that is able to compete against Chu and Qin.
　
But infighting occurred in this country.
A vassal had monopoly politics of Jin.
Jin was about to be taken over to him.
　
"We do not tolerate his disloyalty."
　
But he had been punitive expedition by three vassals of Jin with this nominal.
And after this，they became those in power of course.
Finally，this Jin was taken over by them.

"Han", "Wei", "Zhao".　(韓、魏、趙)
Jin dismantling.
This three countries were born.
　
And of course，time progresses，those in power was born in these countries.

"Ideal of the Duke of Zhou."
It did not exist anywhere.