Source: Liu Xiang's Biography of Woman in the Western Han Dynasty: "Mencius was born with a gentle temperament and was taught by his loving mother three times when he was young."

Original: When Mencius was young, his father died young and his mother died young [zh? Ng's festival. Mencius lived beside the tomb and studied funeral, vagrancy and crying. Mother said, "This is not the reason why I have a house." Is to go, give up the city, near slaughter, Mencius learned to buy and sell slaughter. Mother added, "That's not the reason to live in a house." And then moved to Gong Xue. On the first day of each month (the first day of each month in Shuodong and Xiali), officials enter the Confucian Temple, bow down, bow down, and [Yρ, Mu hands three times] let them advance and retreat. Mencius saw it and learned it one by one. Meng Mu said, "This is really a place to live." So I live here.

Influence: The influence of Meng Mu's godson is far-reaching. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, Han Ying used the story of Meng Mu to explain the meaning of this poem, and the term "Meng Mu" first appeared in Liu Xiang's Biography of Lienv. Ban Zhao, a female historian in the Eastern Han Dynasty, wrote Ode to Meng Mu, and Zuofen, a female writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, also wrote Ode to Meng Mu. The first allusion quoted in the Enlightenment Textbook San Zi Jing in the Southern Song Dynasty is "Once upon a time, Meng Mu chose its neighbors, but its children didn't learn, and it broke the machine", which was a popular enlightenment reading in the late feudal society. Although it was revised and supplemented by scholars in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the story of Meng Mu's three moves to break the machine and teach his son is always at the top of the article. Zhong Huamin, the Shandong inspector, praised: "The saint of the son, the saint of the mother", "Teach the son to take his life and aim at the blue and purple. A wife teaches a child, aiming at Confucius. The only person since ancient times. " With the widespread spread of Meng Mu's story, the feudal rulers also tried their best to shape it into an idol that met their own needs. The feudal emperor sealed it many times until the second year of Qianlong (1737), and Meng Mu was named "Mrs. Fan Xuanxian, the last of the country".