1. Surrounded at Kuang

    · Kuang, southwest of present-day Changyuan, Henan, China

    While traveling from Wei, Confucius was surrounded at Kuang after residents reportedly mistook him for an enemy associated with an earlier attack. The episode followed the initial Wei stay; assignment to 496 BC is a conventional reconstruction. The source locates Kuang southwest of modern Changyuan.

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