Translation: There is rich meat in the kitchen, fat horses in the stables, (but) the faces of the people are hungry, and there are even corpses of people who died of starvation outside the city. This should be called leading wild animals. Cannibalism.

Source: "Mencius, Chapter 1 of King Hui of Liang, Section 4". "Mencius" is a classic work of Confucianism, written by Mencius and his disciples Wan Zhang, Gongsun Chou and others in the middle of the Warring States Period. It was first seen in Zhao Qi's "Mencius' Inscription": "This book was written by Mencius, so it is always called "Mencius"." "Mencius" was listed as one of the "Four Books" by Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty (the other three are "The Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "The Analects of Confucius").

Artistic Features

The language of "Mencius" is clear, simple and approachable, and at the same time concise and accurate. As a prose, "Mencius" is good at argumentation, more artistically expressive, and has the nature of literary prose. The argumentative essays in it skillfully used the method of logical reasoning. Mencius used analogical reasoning skillfully, often playing hard to get, repeatedly asking questions, and circuitously leading the other party into his own preset conclusions, such as "The King of Liang Hui".