Confucius pioneered the atmosphere of private lectures and founded the Confucian school; Yan Hui took Confucius as his teacher at the age of fourteen and has been working for the rest of his life since then. He is the most proud student of Confucius; At the age of sixteen, Ceng Zi worshipped Confucius as his teacher, and he was diligent and eager to learn, and he had quite a biography of Confucius. Zisi, the grandson of Confucius and the son of Kong Li, inherited Confucius' doctrine of the mean and Mencius' theory of mind and nature, which had an important and positive influence on Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty. Mencius was a great thinker and educator in the Warring States period, and a representative of the Confucian school. He and Confucius are also called "Confucius and Mencius".
In fact, the "five saints" refer to many things. In addition to the above-mentioned five people, there is also the theory of "five saints dominating the hegemony", which refers to "Fuxi, Shun Di, King Wen, Duke Zhou and Confucius". There is also the saying of "Five Saints of Nanyang". They are "Jiang Ziya, Zhuge Liang, Fan Li, Zhang Heng and Zhang Zhongjing". There are other statements, which are endless.