Confucius is the  teacher in Chinese history. He was born on September 28, 551BC in the Kingdom of Lu, in today's Shandong Province. When he was young, he and his mother had a hard  life. At the age of fifteen, he began to learn music, and he didin it. Then he went onother subjects. When he was thirty, he became a teacher. He started his own school. He believed everyone should have a chance to get  whether they were rich or poor. He had about 3,000 students and many of them became.