Аннотация:AMONG THE MANY STORIES AND TALES which constitute the legends of Confucius's life, the most wellknown and dramatic involve the Master's suffering and hardships during his exile from Lu t. According to the account set forth in the Tso chuan AtE and Shih chi tPd, Confucius departed, or perhaps was banished, from his homeland in 497 B.C., after a failed attempt, supported by him, to dismantle the defensive walls around the cities controlled by the powerful Chi A, Meng I, and Shu ,~ families.' Along with a small group of followers, he wandered for thirteen years, travelling through AI, Ch'en A, Ts'ai M and other states which lay to the west and southwest of Lu.2 Tales of his trials, usually introduced with such conventional phrases as, When the Master was in Wei or When Confucius was in danger somewhere between the states of Ch'en and Ts'ai . . . , are found
