Mencius said, "Running water is also a thing, not a Pacific Century." "He said," radical will slow down. "The process is too fast, which will inevitably affect the actual effect and cause rapid retrogression. The correct process should be like running water, filling a depression and then flowing downwards. This is the reason why "Yingke is backward".

The metaphor of "going forward" with water means that people have a foundation, which shows that the beauty of personality depends on their inner spiritual source, not on the external "sound and taste". This is inner beauty, and there is happiness in it.

Mencius also used the fable of "pulling out seedlings to encourage growth" to illustrate the importance of gradual progress. Learning knowledge, like crop growth, is a natural and orderly process with its own laws. People should attach importance to and promote the realization of the teaching process, but never use the method of pulling out seedlings to encourage others, which will backfire.

In the past, when Mencius was a child, his father died young, and his mother kept a festival and did not remarry. Mencius' mother attached great importance to Mencius' education and strictly controlled it, hoping that one day Mencius would become a useful person. At first, they lived next to the cemetery. Mencius and his neighbor's children learned to bow down and cry like adults and played a funeral game.

Mencius' mother looked at it and frowned: "No! I can't let my children live here! " Mencius' mother took Mencius to the fair, and when they arrived at the fair, Mencius and the children in the neighborhood began to learn the way businessmen did business and shouted. Mencius' mother said, "This place is not suitable for my children to live in!" "Mencius' mother took Mencius to live near the place where pigs and sheep were slaughtered.

Mencius learned to buy and sell slaughtered pigs and sheep. Mencius' mother knew this and frowned: "This place is still not suitable for my children to live in!" So they moved again. This time, they moved near the school.

At this time of the first day of the summer calendar every month, officials go to the Confucian Temple, bow down and treat each other politely. Mencius learned to remember what he saw. Mencius' mother nodded with satisfaction and said, "This is where my son should live!" " "So I live here.