Q&A: What was Confucius's view of the Universe?

Confucius lived in ancient China when its people were still ignorant of much of the world we know today.  They even thought of themselves as the center of the world calling themselves ‘The Middle Kingdom.’  The Chinese kingdoms had little or no contact with Japan or the other Pacific islands.  China’s contact with the west did stretch as far as Rome, but knowledge of Europe must have been foggy at best.  It would seem extremely unlikely that Confucius or any other Chinese philosopher would theorize about planets, much less other solar systems and the prospect of alien worlds.  From the reading, it would seem that Confucius believed the universe existed only of the limited scope of the Earth that was known to them and Heaven.