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What is a gentleman?
Mencius' standard of gentleman:

1, wealth should not be lewd. Even if a person is rich, he should be temperate and not do too many other things. It can also show that in the face of the temptation of power and wealth, you can still not lose your heart.

Poverty can't be moved, and a person can't change his strong will because of poverty.

3, the mighty can't bend, don't succumb to the power of the town, otherwise the mighty can't do anything wrong.

Extended data:

In Mencius' view, it is not enough to temporarily save or abolish the change of powerful people. The continuation of mankind and civilization has merged into a long river of history. This proposition has an open and grand atmosphere in early civilization.

Mencius told his students: "The sky will descend to Sri Lanka, so you must first suffer from its mind and bones." Fu Shuo was once a prisoner, discovered by Wu Ding, and was selected as the prime minister from the laborers who built the city; Prissy, a saint in the Spring and Autumn Period, was exiled to the State of Chu as a slave. Qin Mugong redeemed him with five fine sheepskins and used it as a supplementary country.