2. Source: Mencius Teng Wengong and his disciples during the Warring States Period.
3. Excerpt from the original text: Live in the world, stand in the correct position in the world and be the best self in the world. Success, with the people; Go your own way when you are frustrated. Wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and power can't be bent. This is called a gentleman.
4. Living in the widest house in the world, standing in the most correct position in the world and walking on the widest road in the world; When you can realize your ideal, follow the people on the right path.
When you can't realize your ideal, you can go your own way alone. Wealth cannot confuse his thoughts, poverty cannot shake his integrity, and power cannot bend his will. This is an ambitious and accomplished man.
5. About the author: Mencius (about 3765438 BC+0- 289 BC), Ji surnamed Meng, surnamed Ke, the font size is unknown (,Zi Ju, etc. All of them were fabricated by fake books or later generations. Zou Guo (now Zoucheng City, Shandong Province) was born in the Warring States Period.
A famous philosopher, thinker, politician and educator in the Warring States period, one of the representatives of Confucianism, was second only to Confucius, and was also called "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius. Advocating "benevolent government", he first put forward the idea that "the people are more expensive than the monarch".
The Original Road by Han Yu listed Mencius as a figure who inherited the Confucian orthodoxy in the pre-Qin period, while the Yuan Dynasty posthumously awarded Mencius as "elegant Gong Sheng Chen Shu" and honored him as "elegant sage". Mencius is a collection of essays compiled by Mencius and his disciples, which advocates "benevolence-oriented".
Jing Chun thinks that Gongsun Yan and Zhang Yi can influence governors and provoke wars between countries. "When a warlord is angry, he fears it, and the world dies." He is a great man.
Mencius believed that Gongsun Yan and Zhang Yizhi climbed up by shaking their lips and obeying the wishes of the governors, and there was no principle of benevolence, righteousness and morality. So they are just villains and women, pursuing the "way of concubinage". How can they be courageous men?
Mencius' statement is implicit and humorous, only by saying "courtesy" to explain the mother's instructions when a woman gets married, thus drawing the conclusion that "those who take obedience as the right path are also concubines". What deserves our attention here is that the ancients thought that a wife's way was like a minister's way. Of course, I should obey you, but the principle of obedience is justice. If you are unfair, I will protest.
The same is true of a wife to her husband. Of course, a wife should obey her husband. However, if the husband has, he should persuade her to correct it. It should be "harmony but difference" only eunuchs, little wives, little maids, who don't ask right and wrong and blindly obey principles. Actually, there is no principle. "The way of concubinage" can not be generally understood as the way of women, but actually the way of little wives.
Mencius' satire was profound and sharp, and he hated Gongsun Yan and Zhang Yi. Regrettably, although Mencius hated this "obedience is the right way", such "concubines" have emerged continuously for more than two thousand years. Today, monogamy has been protected by law, "concubine" is hard to exist, but the theory of "concubine" may not exist, or even be popular.
Mencius' method is to put forward the real way of being a man in a tit-for-tat manner. This is his famous saying, which has been passed down through the ages: "Wealth cannot be lewd, poverty cannot be moved, and power cannot be bent." How? Then you have to "live in the world, stand in the right position in the world and be the best in the world." Or go back to the benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom that Confucianism has always advocated.
After doing this, we will adopt the attitude of "being comrades with the people, not doing it for ourselves", that is, Confucius said "using what is used, hiding what is abandoned" (The Analects of Confucius) or Mencius said in another place that "poverty is the only way to protect yourself, and prosperity is the best way to help the world." ("wholeheartedly" then you can become a real gentleman.
Every sentence of Mencius' famous saying about "gentleman" shines with the power of thought and personality. Historically, it has inspired many people with lofty ideals and become their motto of not being afraid of violence and upholding justice.
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