According to accounts in the Zuo Zhuan and Shiji, Confucius departed his homeland in 497 BC after his support to the failed attempt of dismantling the fortified city walls of the powerful Ji, Meng, and Shu families.

According to the Zuo Zhuan, xia ( 夏 )— which has the meaning of " grand "— was used to signify the ceremonial etiquette of China, while hua ( 華 )— as it means " illustrious "— was used in reference to the beautiful clothing that the Chinese people wore ( 中國有禮儀之大 ， 故稱夏 ； 有服章之美 ， 謂之華 ).

According to the Zuo Zhuan, the Youqiong tribe was conquered by Shaokang.

According to tradition, three generations before Confucius ' time, his ancestors had migrated from the Song state to the Lu state.

According to the Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee, he has 2 million known and registered descendants, and there are an estimated 3 million in all.

According to Confucius, wisdom can be learned by three methods: Reflection ( the noblest ), imitation ( the easiest ) and experience ( the bitterest ).

According to " Doctrine of the Mean ," Confucius also said, " Love of learning is akin to wisdom.

According to Martin Woesler trends were ' cult literature ' with Guo Jingming ( 郭敬明 ), 悲伤逆流成河 Cry me a sad river, vagabond literature with Xu Zechen ( 徐则臣 ), 跑步穿过中关村 Peking double quick, Liu Zhenyun ( 刘震云 ), 我叫刘跃 The pickpockets, underground literature Mian Mian ( 棉棉 ), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex, ' longing for something ' literature, divided in historicizing literature with Yu Dan 于丹, 《 论语 》 心得 Confucius in your heart, Yi Zhongtian ( 易中天 ) and in Tibetan literature with Alai, literature of the mega cities, women's literature with Bi Shumin ( 毕淑敏 ), 女儿拳 Women ’ s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist, master narratives by narrators like Mo Yan 莫言 with 生死疲勞 Life and Death are Wearing me out.

According to tradition, Confucius ( 551 BCE – 479 BCE ) was the final editor of the collection in its present form, although the individual poems would accordingly all be more-or-less older than this.

According to Confucius, a person with a well-cultivated sense of ren would: speak carefully and modestly ( Analects 12. 3 ); be resolute and firm ( Analects 12. 20 ); be courageous ( Analects 14. 4 ); be free from worry, unhappiness, and insecurity ( Analects 9. 28 ; 6. 21 ); moderate their desires and return to propriety ( Analects 12. 1 ); be respectful, tolerant, diligent, trustworthy, and kind ( Analects 17. 6 ); and, would love others ( Analects 12. 22 ).

According to teachings of Agni Yoga, Serapis Bey purports to be, in past lives, the Roman king Numa Pompilius, and the philosophers Confucius, Plato and Seneca the Younger ( Lucius Annaeus Seneca ).

According to the Classic of Filial Piety, Confucius once said: " In serving his parents, a filial son reveres them in daily life ; he makes them happy while he nourishes them ; he takes anxious care of them in sickness ; he shows great sorrow over their death ; and he sacrifices to them with solemnity.

According to Sima Qian, Confucius said: " The disciples who received my instructions, and could themselves comprehend them, were seventy-seven individuals.

According to Sima Qian, he was fifteen years younger than Confucius, but fifty years younger, according to the ' Narratives of the School ,' which latter authority is followed in ' The Annals of the Empire.

According to the ' Narratives of the School ,' he was the same as Yan Ke ( 刻, or 剋 ), who drove the carriage when Confucius rode in Wei after the duke and Nan-zi.

According to Peng Ming-min, a Taiwan independence activist and politician, colleges and universities where a Confucius Institute is established have to sign a contract in which they declare their support for Beijing ’ s “ one China ” policy.

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

According to Volume I of her diaries, 1931 – 1934, published in 1966 ( Stuhlmann ), Nin first came across erotica when she returned to Paris with her mother and two brothers in her late teens.

According to the Book of Ruth, the valley to the east is where Ruth of Moab gleaned the fields and returned to town with Naomi.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, around 125, 000 ethnic Serbs who fled the 1991 – 1995 conflict are registered as having returned to Croatia, of whom around 55, 000 remain permanently.

According to the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba he was killed by Causantín either in 871 or 872 when he returned to Pictland to collect further tribute.

According to a study, " in most areas studied, the various ventures that prompted deforestation rarely generated more than US $ 5 for every ton of carbon they released and frequently returned far less than US $ 1 ".

According to some authors, it was during this time that the burlesque Spanish term " roto " ( torn ), used by Peruvians to refer to Chileans, was first mentioned given how Almagro's disappointed troops returned to Cuzco with their " torn clothes " due to the extensive and laborious passage on foot by the Atacama desert.

According to the Hebrew Bible he returned from the Babylonian exile and reintroduced the Torah in Jerusalem ( Ezra 7-10 and Neh 8 ).

According to the Hebrew Bible 50, 000 Judeans, led by Zerubabel returned to Judah and rebuilt the temple.

According to Papashvily one man who entered the tunnel never returned to the surface.

According to recent figures, of an estimated four million POWs taken by the Soviets, including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others, some 580, 000 never returned, presumably victims of privation or the Gulags.

According to Smith, he returned the golden plates to Moroni after they were translated and as of 1838 the angel Moroni still had the plates in his possession.

According to Roger of Howden's chronicle of Henry's reign, most of the castles belonging to rebels were to be returned to the state they were in 15 days before the outbreak of war, while others were to be razed.

According to the Ministry of Resettlement, most of the displaced persons had been released or returned to their places of origin, leaving only 6, 651 in the camps as of December 2011.

According to The Chess Variant Pages &# x200A ;: Perhaps the enduring popularity of Shogi can be attributed to its ' drop rule '; it was the first chess variant wherein captured pieces could be returned to the board to be used as one's own.

According to her obituary in Jet magazine, she was " omesick for Washington " and returned ( she died in 1967 ).

According to his son Pierrepont Noyes, John Noyes once remarked, We made a raid into an unknown country, charted it and returned without the loss of a man, woman, or child.

According to the Book of Tang, of the 305, 000 Chinese troops, only 2, 700 returned to China ( although the Tang was known to have exaggerated the failures of their predecessors to justify their own rule ).

According to a French documentary TV film " Tank on the Moon " by Jean Afanassieff, the Lunokhod design returned to limelight 15 years later due to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster on April 26, 1986.

According to one version of a popular legend, an astrologer had advised King Ralambo ( 1575CE-1610CE ) to choose his successor by selecting a time when his sons were away from the capital to feign sickness and urge their return ; his kingdom would be given to the first son who returned home to him.

According to scholar Ervand Abrahamian, although there were several decades of prohibition of torture that spread from Europe to most parts of the world, by the 1980s, the taboo against torture was broken and torture " returned with a vengeance ," propelled in part by television and an opportunity to break political prisoners and broadcast the resulting public recantations of their political beliefs for " ideological warfare, political mobilization, and the need to win ' hearts and minds.

According to Numbers 31: 16 and St. John ( Revelation 2: 14 ), Balaam returned to King Balak and informed the king on how to get the Israelites to curse themselves by enticing them with prostitutes and unclean food sacrificed to idols.

According to Procopius, the Heruli, after having raided the European continent for several generations, returned to Scandinavia in 512 AD as a result of military defeats.

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

According to Judge, the History set was made up of episodes that he had previously rejected for home video release and had been prepared without his knowledge or consent.

According to Arnaz himself, in his autobiography A Book ( 1976 ), the family owned three ranches, a palatial home, and a vacation mansion on a private island in Santiago Bay, Cuba.

' According to the Evil Dead DVD commentary, he would often return home after a night of shooting in the back of a pick-up truck, as he was usually covered in fake blood made from a mixture of corn syrup, food coloring, and non-dairy coffee creamer.

According to WBZ-TV, the team joined three NBA teams which achieved 500 consecutive home sellouts.

" According to America's Best Franchises, there are many benefits to choosing to become a home-based franchisee, " but having a home based business doesn't offer any guarantees as you will encounter many challenges you'll have to learn to overcome.

According to the Sages, this was a prophetic reference to the End of Days, when Jacob's descendants will come to Mount Seir, the home of Edom, to deliver judgment against Esau's descendants for persecuting them throughout the millennia ( see Obadiah 1: 21 ).

According to Smith, the angel was the guardian of the golden plates, which Latter Day Saints believe were the source material for the Book of Mormon, buried in a hill near Smith's home in western New York.

According to the Gospel of Luke, Nazareth was the home village of Mary and also the site of the Annunciation ( when Mary was told by the Angel Gabriel that she would have Jesus as her son ).

According to the United States 2000 Census, 667, 414 Americans of age 5 years and over reported Polish as the language spoken at home, which is about 1. 4 % of people who speak languages other than English or 0. 25 % of the U. S. population.

According to Homer ( Odyssey iv: 412 ), the sandy island of Pharos situated off the coast of the Nile Delta was the home of Proteus, the oracular Old Man of the Sea and herdsman of the sea-beasts.

According to the Supreme Court Historical Society, 20 goose-quill pens, neatly crossed, are placed at the four counsel tables each day the U. S. Supreme Court is in session ; " most lawyers appear before the Court only once, and gladly take the quills home as souvenirs.

According to the Ruby FAQ, " If you like Perl, you will like Ruby and be right at home with its syntax.

According to the 2011 elephant census, the country is home to at least 5879 elephants.

According to the Jewish version of events, when the Judean exile ended in 538 BCE and the exiles began returning home from Babylon, they found their former homeland populated by other people who claimed the land as their own and Jerusalem, their former glorious capital, in ruins.

According to the latest census, taken in 2007, the park is home to 138 of these endangered wombats.

According to Ibn Ishaq, he was stopped from doing so by two rabbis from the Banu Qurayza tribe, who implored the king to spare the oasis because it was the place " to which a prophet of the Quraysh would migrate in time to come, and it would be his home and resting-place.

According to a September 2007 article in the Daily Telegraph, Nicks says she is again selling her home, her recently purchased Pacific Palisades home ( purchased two years before by Nicks, right down the street from a rental home she had for years in Pacific Palisades ).

According to Lee's wife Linda, Lee met producer Raymond Chow at 2 pm at home to discuss the making of the film Game of Death.

According to the 1999 Belarus Census, the Belarusian language is declared as a " language spoken at home " by about 3, 686, 000 Belarusian citizens ( 36. 7 % of the population ) as of 1999.

According to a study done by the Belarusian government in 2009, 72 % of Belarusians speak Russian at home, while Belarusian is used by only 11. 9 % of Belarusians.

According to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Homefront ", Starfleet Academy cadets receive transporter rations, and the Sisko family once used a transporter to move furniture into a new home.