Why read Mencius? How to evaluate Mencius?

The book "Mencius" contains Mencius's systematic view of life and death, which is manifested in the life attitude of treating all life kindly, the life values of sacrificing life for righteousness, and the life pursuit of "a gentleman to start a business and be sustainable". Mencius is one of the four books that embodies all aspects of Mencius's thought, including his outlook on life and death. Mencius inherited and carried forward Confucius's concept of life and death, and his attitude towards life was to treat all life well, emphasizing sacrificing life for righteousness when making life and death decisions, pursuing entrepreneurship and verticality, and transcending death.

As one of the most important representatives of Confucius's post-Confucius, Mencius inherited Confucius's idea of respecting and cherishing life and developed it to a new stage. Mencius's view of life and death is characterized by a broader conception of kindness to life.

Mencius first put forward the specific proposition of treating oneself well, believing that every part of the body should be cared for and maintained. He said, "People are both in their bodies and in their love."

If you love it, you will also raise it. If you don't love the skin without size, you won't nourish the skin without size. Caring for every part of the body is the embodiment of filial piety, and taking care of it on this basis is cherishing life itself.

Second, Mencius extended kindness to life to all things natural. When talking to King Liang Hui, he said: "There is no injury, it is a benevolent art, and the cow is not seen the sheep."

A gentleman is also to beasts, seeing their life, and not being able to bear to see their death; Hearing its voice, I can't bear to eat its flesh. It is a gentleman who cooks far away. (Mencius, King Hui of Liang).

Mencius's ideas were not valued at the time, but in China's long-term feudal society, especially after the Song Dynasty, his book "Mencius" was regarded as a classic, and had a great impact on the political, ideological, cultural, and moral traditions of Chinese society in successive dynasties. Later rulers especially exalted Mencius as an "authentic" Confucian thinker.

When Meng Ke was a child, he memorized poems and texts, and his mother was weaving. Xiao Meng Ke suddenly stopped reciting and continued to recite again. Little Mengke's mother knew that he had forgotten the contents of the book because he was distracted, so she called him in and asked:

Why did you stop endorsing halfway through? Xiao Meng Ke said: "I forgot some places in the book, and then I remembered them again."

At this time, the auspicious shed was in turmoil, and Xiao Mengke's mother picked up a knife to cut the cloth she had weaved, and used this method to warn him (you can't give up halfway while studying). From then on, Xiao Meng Ke no longer forgot the content of the book because of distraction. (3) Mengzi's mother's rings When Mencius was young, he recited, and his mother weaved.

Mencius stopped abruptly, but re-entered. His mother knew what he was saying, and asked, "What is the suspension?"

He said: "If you lose something, you will regain it." "His mother led the knife to tear his weaving, so as to stop it.

Since then, Mencius has not said anything more. 級約 [note] 辍 (chuò) 然: The appearance of an abrupt termination.

Drop, stop, repeal. Such as "dropping out of school" and "dropping out of writing". 言宣 (xuān):

Oblivion. Split: Cut.

A ......... with a braille explanation that is incorrect3 points a, his mother fang weaving (being) b, Mencius dropped out of the suspension (......The appearance of c, its mother leads the knife to crack its weaving (take it) d, with this precept (guard) The usage of the following "zhi" is different from the other three .........3 points a, call and ask b, since it is c, or beg with coins d, and the rest of the smell is also long. 21.What does this story tell us?

What do you think of the matter of "Meng's mother ring and Peizi"? 4 points 19 d 20 b 21 Do things with perseverance, otherwise you will lose all your previous achievements (the rest can be said to be reasonable) The second half of the question is an open-ended question, as long as you have your own thinking and can make sense of it.

Mencius, one of the four Confucian classics, was written by Mencius and his student Wan Zhang, with Mencius himself participating.

Like Confucius, Mencius also led his students on a tour of Wei, Qi, Song, Lu, Teng, and Xue, and once served as a guest secretary to King Xuan of Qi. Since his political ideas were not reused like Confucius's, he returned to his hometown to gather disciples to give lectures, and wrote books with his students Wan Zhang and others, "The preface to the poem and the book describe the meaning of Zhongni, and compose seven articles of Mencius." (Historical Records: The Biography of Mencius Xunqing) We see the seven chapters of Mencius, each of which is divided into upper and lower parts, about 35,000 words, and a total of 260 chapters.

But the Book of Han. The "Artwork and Literature Chronicles" contains "Eleven Articles of Mencius", which is four more than the existing "Mencius". When Zhao Qi annotated Mencius, he identified the eleven articles and considered seven to be true, and four of the other seven were false.

After the Eastern Han Dynasty, these articles were lost one after another. In the Inscription of Mencius, Zhao Qi compared Mencius with the Analects, and considered Mencius to be "composed in imitation of saints". So, despite the fact that the Book of Han.

The Literature and Art Chronicles only put Mencius in Zhuzilu and regarded it as a book in the middle of the book, but in fact, in the minds of the people of the Han Dynasty, it was already regarded as a "biography" book that assisted the "scriptures".

"Mencius Mingke, the word Ziyu, was a thinker and educator during the Warring States Period. Not (politicians). His political ideas were unacceptable. I have never been an official.