Being a great thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism, Confucius is an ancient sage during the Spring and Autumn Period. His words and life story were recoreded by his students in The Analects. As an enduring classic of ancient Chinese culture, The Analects has influenced all thinkers, writers and politicians over 2000 years of China. Much of Confucian thought represents human values. This is perhaps why Confucian thought still got attention from Chinese in the 21 century. What’s more, Confucius Institute has been set up in many countries and received recognition.
As for me, I don’t have a good knowledge of Confucius until an exhibition about him in my primary school when I’m in the fifth grade. His words ‘A man who is talented and curiousness should not be ashamed of learning from those intellectual inferior to him’ corrected my false learning attitude,and I learned to be modest from ‘To know that we know what we know, and we don’t know what we don’t know,that is true knowledge’. Confucian has affected my learning, character and other aspects, it’s no doubt that he is a great cultural hero to my mind.
In modern society, cultural exportation is an significance standard to measure a country’s comprehensive national strength, so the spread of Confucian is worth a shot.
英雄很多，但很少有人能称之为文化英雄。在我看来，一个能使人们接受并拥护的人是文化英雄。今天我要介绍我的文化英雄孔子，他曾激励过我。孔子是春秋时期伟大的思想家、教育家和儒家学派的创始人，他的话和生活故事被他的学生记录在《论语》中。《论语》作为中国古代文化的一部经久不衰的经典史籍，影响了无数人，这也许就是为什么儒家思想在21世纪仍然受到中国人关注的原因。此外，孔子学院已在许多国家设立并得到认可。至于我，在我小学五年级的时候有一次关于孔子的展览，我才对孔子有所了解。他说的“敏而好学，不耻下问，是以谓之文也。”纠正了我错误的学习态度，我学会了谦虚，因为“知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也。”儒家思想影响了我的学习、品格等各个方面，毫无疑问，他是我心中伟大的文化英雄。（指导老师：应忠意）
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