Mencius (about 372 BC-about 289 BC) was born in Ke, Huaxia (Han nationality) and Zou (now Zoucheng city, Shandong province).

He is a disciple of Kong Ji, the grandson of Confucius.

Mencius was a great thinker and educator in the Warring States period, and a representative of the Confucian school. Also known as "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius. Masterpieces such as I want what I want, I get more help from the Tao, and I get less help from the Tao, and I was born in sorrow and died in happiness have been compiled into junior middle school Chinese textbooks, while I am in the countryside has been compiled into senior high school Chinese textbooks.

Later generations posthumous title Mencius called him "Ya Gong Sheng" and respectfully called him "Ya Gong Sheng". His disciples and re-disciples recorded Mencius' words and deeds into a book, which was a collection of recorded essays and Mencius' speeches, compiled by Mencius and his disciple * * *, and advocated "benevolence-oriented".