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- His birthday celebrated on the 27th Day of the Eighth Moon, Confucius (551-479 BC) is China's most renowned and influential thinker. Confucius' original philosophy has grown into a religion, and he is venerated across China to this very day. Praised as a scholar, teacher and social organiser, his ideas lost popularity during the early years of communism, but are now enjoying something of a renaissance.
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- tel: 86 21 6407 3593 (Confucius Temple)
Address:
- 215 Wen Miao Road
- Shanghai
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