Meaning: When supporting and honoring elders, don't forget other elderly people who are not related by blood. When raising and educating your own children, don't forget other unrelated children.
2, I would like to teach you to do it with filial piety, and those who win the prize can't bear to wear it on the road. -Mencius, his disciple and his re-disciple "Mencius" during the Warring States Period.
Meaning: Set up school education seriously, and educate people repeatedly on the principle of filial piety, so that white-haired old people will not run on the road with things on their backs or heads.
3, relying on Mount Tai to surpass the North Sea, this can't be done, and it must be done; Folding branches for the elderly is neither for nor for. -Mencius, his disciple and his re-disciple "Mencius" during the Warring States Period.
Meaning: It is not unwilling or impossible to put Mount Tai under your arm and jump over the North Sea. Not doing a small thing for the elders is not impossible, but unwilling to do it.
The extended material "Mencius" consists of seven articles, which is a compilation of Mencius' speeches during the Warring States Period. It records the contention between Mencius and hundred schools of thought, the words and deeds, and the lobbying of princes, etc. It was compiled by Mencius and his disciples (Zhang Wan, etc.). ).
Mencius recorded Mencius' thoughts on governing the country, political strategies (the debate between benevolence and Wang Ba, people-oriented, respecting the right and wrong of the monarch's heart, the people being the monarch, and the monarch following it) and political actions. Written in the mid-Warring States period, it belongs to Confucian classics. His theoretical starting point is the theory of good nature and advocates the rule of virtue. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu called Mencius, The Analects of Confucius, Daxue and The Doctrine of the Mean the Four Books.
Since the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has been regarded as a family heirloom. Just like our textbooks. Mencius is the longest and heaviest of the four books, with more than 35 thousand words. From then until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "Four Books" had been a compulsory part of the imperial examination. Mencius' theory is not only pure and broad, but also full of heroic beauty.
Mencius is magnificent, full of emotion, eloquent, infectious, spread to future generations and has far-reaching influence, and has become one of the classic works of Confucianism.
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