Why didn t Confucius talk about immortality and human death?

Confucius did not talk about immortality and human death because he advocated being a good man, fulfilling filial piety, and doing what a man should do while he was alive. Death is a matter of the future. So he doesn't discuss these two issues.

Confucius's view is that "you don't know life, you don't know death", Confucius paid more attention to what he did when he was alive, and he believed that as long as he could be courteous, righteous and benevolent while he was alive, then he would die well.

Because Confucius believed that the survival of people in the world is the most important, he advocated that people are precious, and survival in this world is the first thing, after all, the traditional concept is to live and understand first, and then think about what will happen after death.

Where does life come from and where does death go" is not a transcendence of life and death at all, but only a continuation of life and death, a flat extension, and a proposal to "stop children's crying".

Lu Aigong asked Confucius: "What is the meaning of human life and sex?" Confucius said:

Divided into the Tao, it is called life; Form in one, called nature; Transformed into yin and yang, pictographic and hairy, called life; Exhausting the numbers is called death. Those who die are the beginning of sex; The dead are also the end of life. Where there is a beginning, there must be an end.

Confucius talked about it, but he didn't tell anyone about it. Zigong and Zilu both asked similar questions, but Confucius didn't. - The question of life and death, when you are enlightened, you will naturally understand, and enlightenment has little to do with knowing life and death.

The Tao is the sum of continuous, balanced laws (principles). Master enough rules and remove the emotional interference of fame and fortune, then you will be enlightened. After enlightenment, life and death are only one of the laws.

Confucius was not successful during his lifetime because the level of social productivity was relatively low at that time, and the rulers did not adopt Confucius's ideas, and he was praised after his death because Confucius's ideas were applicable to the social development of future generations and produced great cultural value.

Confucius advocated "benevolence", and the Confucian idea of "benevolence" met the requirements of the rulers, and during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to achieve great unification, Confucianism was regarded as orthodoxy. At the same time, in the ancient imperial examinations, Confucianism was the main content of the examination, so Confucius was praised by later generations after his death.

Confucius admired Confucianism, in which benevolence and propriety were important. In his time, under the conditions of a hundred schools of thought contending and endless wars, it was basically impossible to want people to be benevolent and generous. Confucianism had no place in the war years, let alone practical use, so that it was not respected at the time.

Because Confucius was born in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the kings at that time only thought about expanding their territory and annexing weak and small countries, and did not consider the implementation of benevolent government at all, and conquering by force was the royal way.

Because Confucianism had the right to speak, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed Confucianism as a representative of Confucianism in order to strengthen his rule, so Confucius was praised by future generations as a representative of Confucianism.