Confucius lived during the Eastern Zhou dynasty in ancient China and is traditionally dated to 551–479 BCE.
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The Short Version
The evidence strongly supports this statement. Standard scholarly and institutional references consistently place Confucius in the Eastern Zhou dynasty’s Spring and Autumn period and conventionally date him to 551–479 BCE. The dates are traditional rather than contemporaneously documented, but the claim already states that qualification.
Caveats
The dates 551–479 BCE are conventional traditional dates, not securely established from contemporaneous records.
Confucius is more precisely placed in the Spring and Autumn period, which is a subdivision of the Eastern Zhou dynasty.
Lower-quality web sources in the evidence list are unnecessary here; the conclusion rests on stronger academic and institutional references.