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Confucius is the most influential and respected philosopher in Chinese history.His ideas have the most powerful and sole influence on Chinese society from around 100 B.C.till the early 20th century.Confucius never wrote down any of his own teachings.But for his disciples who took the trouble to record his conversations and discourses,Confucius would have been a nobody today.Being widespread across China,people accepted the teachings of Confucius for their sound principles,and all successive dynasties made them the official state ideology.Confucianism then affected everything in China including education,government,public and private attitudes, and etiquette.