佛祖統紀 54.17

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周靈王二十一年十一月庚子。孔子生魯陬邑○景王十年。孔子朝周。問禮於老子○敬王十九年。為魯中都宰。二十一年為司空。二十二年為大司寇。誅少正卯墮三都。魯定公受齊女樂。三日不聽政。孔子遂適衛。三十六年自衛反魯。刪詩定書繫周易作春秋。以曾參孝為作孝經。三十九年。哀公西狩獲麟。孔子傷麟出非時。遂絕筆於春秋。四十一年四月乙丑孔子卒。葬泗水上。弟子三千人。身通六藝者七十二人。漢平帝元始元年追諡孔子褒成宣尼公。

On the gengzi day in the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of King Ling of the Zhou, Confucius was born in Zouyi in Lu. In the tenth year of King Jing, Confucius paid court to the Zhou and inquired about rites from Laozi. In the nineteenth year of King Jing, he became the magistrate of Zhongdu in Lu; in the twenty-first year, he became Minister of Works (Sikong); in the twenty-second year, he became Minister of Justice (Da Sikou), executed Shaocheng Mao, and dismantled the fortified walls of the three capitals. Duke Ding of Lu received female musicians from Qi and did not attend to governance for three days; Confucius thereupon went to Wei. In the thirty-sixth year, he returned to Lu from Wei, redacted the Odes, settled the Documents, appended commentary to the Changes of the Zhou, and composed the Spring and Autumn Annals; taking Zeng Shen's filial piety as the subject, he composed the Classic of Filial Piety. In the thirty-ninth year, Duke Ai hunted in the west and captured a qilin; Confucius lamented that the qilin had appeared out of its proper time, and thereupon laid down his brush on the Spring and Autumn Annals. On the yichou day in the fourth month of the forty-first year, Confucius passed away and was buried along the Si River. He had three thousand disciples, of whom seventy-two were thoroughly versed in the Six Arts. In the first year of the Yuanshi era of Emperor Ping of the Han, Confucius was posthumously granted the title Baocheng Xuanni Gong (Duke Xuanni of Exemplary Virtue).