Mencius advocated "benevolent government" and first put forward the idea that "the people are more valuable than the monarch". The Original Road by Han Yu listed Mencius as a figure who inherited the orthodoxy of the pre-Qin Dynasty, while the Yuan Dynasty posthumously named Meng as "elegant Gong Sheng" and respected him as "elegant saint". Mencius is a collection of essays compiled by Mencius' disciples, which advocates "benevolence-oriented". Mencius (about 372 BC-289 BC), surnamed Ji, was born in Zou State (now Zoucheng, Jining, Shandong) during the Warring States Period. A famous philosopher, thinker, politician and educator in the Warring States period, one of the representatives of Confucianism, was second only to Confucius, and was also called "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius.