Socrates and Confucius are both 5th-century BC philosophers who had a great impact on the education. Traced back to Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770 - 220 BC), there were Hundred Schools of Thoughts promoting their ideas in many ways like life, thinking, and humanity. At that time, teachers had to travel country to country to find a king that accepted their ideas and called them teachers. Conficius is one of them and his ideas we called it as Confucianism, or Ruism. Ruism had a great impact on the whole Asian world and even now people in Taiwan and China are still reading his famous book called Lunyu.
Confucius died in 479 BC, and his students collected Confucius' words into a book called Lunyu. Most of Confucius' students became teachers and spread Confucius' idea through out Asian world. In addtion, people viewed Confucius as God and built up a temple for him and set up some ceremony to worship this great teacher Confucius. Confucius was so important that people see him as a model as teacher and regard his birthday (0928) as teacher's day.
Confucius
Who is Confucius? 孔子
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty1RCzT3GFY
Confucianism / Ruism 儒家文化
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjWJyMppyQk
Famous book: Lunyu 论语
http://www.confucius.org/lunyu/lange.htm
memorize the great teacher : Confucius Temple 孔庙
Taipei Confucius Temple is one of the most famous Temple in Taiwan.
Ceremony 祭孔大典
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUKmUFJAPtM
八佾舞dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BJDPvrU4o0
REFERENCE
https://www.sim.org.tw/festival18.html
game: 孔子点点名 https://confucius.hle.com.tw/
Nowadays
Although Confucius died two thousand years ago, his words still live in our mind forever. Schools in Taiwan will have some special activities to memorize the great teacher Confucius and thank all the teachers who worked so hard in their fields.
拔智慧毛
While we worshiped Confucius in the Temple, we prepared some meat and wine. In ancient times, we will serve Confucius a whole ox or a whole pig which sounds scary but it's true. Then, after the ceremony, people could pulled some fur of the ox which means you took some wisdom from Confucius. Nowaday, we don't serve a real ox but we make a fake one; we don't pull out the fur but we put some pens for students to take.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btcDdwwFVtA
过葱（聪）门
In elementary, teacher will decorate the door with two vegetables, one is Celery and the other is scallion. In Chinese, the pronunciation of celery means diligent and the pronunciation of scallion means smart. Teachers will lead the kids to go through the Celery & Scallion door which means the students will become diligent and smart.
celery - diligent / scallion - smart
奉茶
On teacher's day, students will serve their teacher a hot tea for showing their gratitude to teacher. Besides, if you see 奉茶 in Taiwan which means free tea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-UsttbGwQs
story book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Myxjk4Hsgk
YouTube song
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