Kong Qiu of Zhong Ni was born in 5 5 2 BC and died in 4 7 9 BC. He was born and lived in the "Spring and Autumn Period" of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and once worked as a commissioner and a small official in Lu. When Lu was appointed, he was promoted to butcher and coach in Zhongdu. Later, because he was dissatisfied with his aristocratic family, he left Shandong and traveled to Wei, Song, Chen, Cai, Chu and other countries, hoping to realize his ideal of benevolent government, but no one accepted his idea and had to return to Shandong. From then on, he began to sort out ancient literary contributions, and at the same time began to create a private lecture style, widely taught his younger brother and son, and publicized his own thoughts, making him a thinker, politician, great educator and founder of Confucianism in ancient China. The core of Confucius thought is "benevolence", and the so-called "benevolence" is "love"

Shakespeare

Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, 1564 was born in Stratford, England. He has a strong cultural foundation, but he didn't go to college. /kloc-married a 26-year-old woman at the age of 0/8, and had three children before the age of 2/kloc-0; Three years later, he went to London and became an actor and playwright. Became popular at the age of 30; At the age of 34, he was well-off and successful in art, and was recognized as a rising star. Shakespeare lived alone in London for 20 years, and his wife has been living in Stratford. Nearly 40 years old, Shakespeare returned to Stratford until his death.

At the age of 27, he wrote the trilogy of the historical drama Henry VI. After the play was staged, it was very popular with the audience and won him a high reputation, which gradually made him gain a firm foothold in the London drama world.

1595, Shakespeare wrote a tragedy Romeo and Juliet. After the performance of the play, Shakespeare became famous in London, and the audience flooded into the theater to see the play, moved to tears.

From 65438 to 0599, Shakespeare devoted himself to writing Hamlet and achieved great success.

In the following years, Shakespeare wrote Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Together with Hamlet, it is called the four tragedies of Shakespeare.

16 16, Shakespeare died at the age of 52. During his 52-year career, he left the world with 37 plays, a volume of 14 lines and two narrative poems. His plays are still performed all over the world. Every year on his birthday, many countries will stage his plays to commemorate him.

Shakespeare was the "giant" of English drama in the European Renaissance. He inherited and carried forward the excellent traditions of ancient Greek and Roman drama and British folk drama, broke through the boundary between comedy and tragedy, and made creative innovations in content and form, regardless of the "three unifications" or other disciplines. In view of the bondage of feudal system and asceticism in the Middle Ages, he respected women and praised love, and created a series of idealized lovely images of new bourgeois women. In historical dramas and tragedies, he created a series of images of feudal tyrants and mercilessly exposed and criticized feudal tyranny. In his plays, he also advocated that human beings opposed the Shinto in the Middle Ages, compared man to a god, emphasized the greatness and strength of man, and said that man was "the essence of the universe and the primate of all things". He also often exposes religious hypocrisy in his plays. Shakespeare's dramatic art is characterized by the ingenious combination of fantasy and reality. After 1848, in order to "improve his English knowledge", Marx once found out all the words and phrases with Shakespeare's special style and classified them.

His tomb is now next to a small church in his hometown, and tens of millions of people go to pay homage every year. On his tombstone, there is such an inscription:

"For God's sake,

Please don't touch my grave,

Cursed are those who act rashly,

The protector will be blessed. "

A Brief Introduction of Mark Twain

American writer. His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain is his pen name. Mark Twain is the founder of American critical realism literature and a world-famous master of short stories. His early works, such as the short stories Electing the Governor (1870) and Goldsmith's Friends Going Abroad Again (1870), mocked the absurdity of "democratic election" and the essence of "democratic paradise" in the United States with humorous brushstrokes.