Confucius' Achievement over Rites of Zhou

Although Confucius appealed to submitting to Rites of Zhou against the transforming age of damaged rites and music, he had to, as a common folk of many influential and creative words and deeds confronting the rigid and conservative Rites of Zhou, play it down as an instrument by founding his benevolence ideology as a must of the ruling guidelines, advocate for equality and trust on virtuous man of capacity, involve himself in the state affairs of Lu, travel to survey all the other states, initiate private education, compile Spring and Autumn Annals, as well as distinguish himself with an extraordinary personality, all of which inevitably departed him further from and finally over Rites of Zhou, thus offering a special contribution to the social transformation.