Confucius was a scholar from the Spring and Autumn Period in ancient China, around 550 B.C. Today, he is considered the founder of Confucianism.
The following words appear in Chapter 27 of the Shu Er section of the "Analects of Confucius" angled but did not use a net. He shot, but not at birds perching."
This means that Confucius caught fish by fishing, but did not use a net and although he did shoot arrows with a string attached to them, he did not shoot sleeping birds.
When Confucius was young, his family was poor, and he worked on a farm. To support his parents, he sometimes caught fish by fishing and caught birds by shooting arrows. Although he caught fish by fishing, he did not block the flowing water and catch even young fish with a net. Even when he had no choice but to catch birds, he did........