1, (before 505- before 435), surnamed Si, surnamed Zeng, named Shen (there are two sayings in academic circles, one reads shēn, the other reads cān), the word, Nanwucheng (now Pingyi, Shandong, Jiaxiang, Shandong). At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, he was a thinker, a master of Confucianism, one of Confucius' disciples in his later years, an important representative of Confucianism, and a descendant of Yu Xia. His father, Ceng Dian, named Xi, was one of the seventy-two sages, and his son had studied under Confucius.

2. Advocating Confucianism with "filial piety and faithfulness" as the core, the political view of "self-cultivation and family harmony", the self-cultivation view of "introspection and independence" and the filial piety view of "filial piety-oriented" still have extremely valuable social significance and practical value. Ceng Zi participated in the compilation of The Analects of Confucius, the writing of Daxue, The Book of Filial Piety, Ten Articles of Ceng Zi and other works.