Not that I know of. However, the iron age in China manifested in the chaos of "the Spring and Autumn period (about 770~470 BC)" and "the Warring States period (about 470~220 BC)" - Confucius and many other Chinese philosophers were born in this time
The Shang-Zhou bronze age was considered as the "good ol' time" by many Chinese philosophers in the Spring and Autumn / Warring States period, for example.
I agree - it's just such a story so deeply ingrained in the 2,000 years of the dominance of the Confucian ideology, so I just released it as I remember it. Most East Asian people (in Sinosphere) would recognize the idiom
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Not that I know of. However, the iron age in China manifested in the chaos of "the Spring and Autumn period (about 770~470 BC)" and "the Warring States period (about 470~220 BC)" - Confucius and many other Chinese philosophers were born in this time
The Shang-Zhou bronze age was considered as the "good ol' time" by many Chinese philosophers in the Spring and Autumn / Warring States period, for example.