The exhibition on Confucius' life gives insight into the full extent of this great scholar's influence. Confucius (551-479 BC) was a philosopher, educator and founder of the Confucian school established late in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC).
His ideology exerted enormous influence, not only to the Chinese but on peoples of the world.
Centuries ago China was a powerful country that set itself up as the model for its Asian neighbors. Mainstream Confucianism was disseminated and absorbed to the extent that it still constitutes the moral and social criterion of many Asian countries.
Pictorial materials, wooden models, stone sculptures and their accompanying explanatory texts tell of the Confucius Temples built in Hanoi, Vietnam and Nagasaki in Japan, and other Asian countries. Establishment of the US Academy of Confucius in California and Confucius Institute in Maryland bear witness to dissemination of this ideology in modern times.
