In the past, when Mencius was a child, his father died early, but his mother did not remarry.

at first, they lived next to the cemetery. Mencius and his neighbors' children learned to bow down and cry like adults, and played a funeral game.

Mencius' mother frowned when she saw it: "No! I can't let my children live here! " Mencius' mother took Mencius to the market and lived near the place where pigs and sheep were slaughtered. When he arrived at the market, Mencius and his neighbors' children learned about businessmen doing business and slaughtering pigs and sheep.

Mencius' mother knew this and frowned: "This place is not suitable for my children to live in!" " So they moved again. This time, they moved near the school.

At this time of the first day of the lunar calendar every month, officials go to the Confucian Temple, bow down and treat each other politely. Mencius learns to remember everything when he sees them. Mencius' mother nodded with satisfaction and said, "This is where my son should live!" "

Extended information:

Meng Mu moved three times, that is, Mencius' mother moved several times to choose a good environment to educate her children. The San Zi Jing says, "In the past, Meng Mu chose its neighbors.". Meng Mu's Three Movements came from this. The word explanation information means that Mencius' mother took great pains to move to three places in order to make her children have a really good educational environment. Now it is sometimes used to mean that parents are well-intentioned and try their best to train their children.

Enlightenment of Meng Mu's Three Movements

① A good humanistic environment is very important for human growth and life. Modern people demand not only high-quality material life, but also high-grade spiritual life.

② Give people a lot of thinking. In personal space, in living, in social circles. In life, the environment makes talents, and the environment also drowns them.

③ The environment is important. For example, if a newborn baby is given to a wolf to raise, the baby will have many living habits of the wolf when he grows up.