In order to choose a good environment to educate her children, Monk's mother moved many times. The San Zi Jing says, "Meng Mu once chose a neighbor." Meng Mu's three-step move came from this.
Mencius' mother took great pains to move to three places in order to give her children a really good educational environment. Now it is sometimes used to show that parents have good intentions and try their best to train their children.
Mother-in-law tattoo
Yue Fei's heroic deeds are widely circulated among the people, and the story of her mother-in-law's tattoo is also very popular. However, the story of mother-in-law tattoo has no basis in history. There are no records in the notes of the Song Dynasty and unofficial history, and there are also records in Jin Tuo Ge Bian written by Yue Fei's great-grandson York. Mother-in-law tattoos began to appear in the Biography of Song History compiled by Yuan people. The book says, "At the beginning of my life, why did you throw a bow and fly off your petticoat?"