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Mencius' famous saying of respecting the old and loving the young.
1, old people and old people, young people and young people. -Mencius Hui Liang Wang Shang during the Warring States Period.

Vernacular interpretation: When supporting and honoring elders, don't forget other elderly people who are not related by blood. When raising and educating your own children, don't forget other unrelated children.

2, but the inch of long grass is a little sentimental, and it is reported to be three spring rays. -Tang Meng Jiao's Wandering Sons

Interpretation of vernacular: Who dares to say that children are weak and filial as grass, and can repay the kindness of loving mothers like Chunhui Puze?

3, leaning on Mount Tai to surpass the North Sea, people say "I can't", which is true. Old man, people say "I can't", which is not for, and must not be for. -Mencius Hui Liang Wang Shang during the Warring States Period.

Vernacular interpretation: this man told people: I can't do it. This is really impossible. Ask someone to break a branch for the old man. This man told people: I can't do it. This is unwilling to do, not impossible.

The thread in the hand of a kind-hearted mother makes clothes for her wayward son. -Tang Meng Jiao's Wandering Sons

A loving mother makes clothes for her long-distance son with a needle and thread in her hand.

5, old friends are not just relatives, not just sons, so that the elderly have a home, strong and useful, young and strong, lonely and old, sick and disabled, men are divided, women are returned. -Western Han Dynasty? Li Yun and Dai Sheng's Book of Rites

Interpretation of the vernacular: the old are provided for, the young are provided for, the widowed and physically disabled are provided for, men have proper jobs, and women get married at the right time.