Mencius, Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean and The Analects of Confucius are four books, and Mencius was listed as one of the four books by Zhu, a great scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. The four books, together with The Book of Songs, Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu, are called "Four Books and Five Classics", which are Confucian classics and have inherited Confucian theories and thoughts since Confucius and Mencius.

The main content of Mencius

Mencius was listed as one of the four books by Zhu, a great scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. There are seven books and fourteen volumes in Mencius, which record the ideological views and political activities of Mencius and his disciples, involving politics, education, philosophy, ethics and other fields. The seven chapters of Mencius not only recorded Mencius' words and deeds to his disciples, but also involved the debates between Confucianism and other schools at that time, as well as Mencius' lobbying for princes, which was compiled by Mencius and his disciples (Zhang Wan, etc.). ).

As far as writing is concerned, Mencius is magnificent and full of emotion. Mencius' eloquence is full of appeal; The classic debate in Mencius has been handed down from generation to generation, which has far-reaching influence and has become one of the classic works of Confucianism.