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Using property and status to distinguish gentlemen from villains comes from Mencius’ teachings, right?

No.

Mencius’ famous saying: To be rich is to be unkind.

Mencius only said that he who has no permanent property but has perseverance is a gentleman.

Ordinary people have neither permanent wealth nor perseverance.

Mencius (about 372 BC - about 289 BC), whose name was Ke and whose courtesy name was Ziyu, was from the Huaxia ethnic group and was a native of present-day Shandong.

He is the second disciple of Kong Ji, the grandson of Confucius. According to legend, he is a descendant of Qingfu, an aristocratic son surnamed Ji of the State of Lu. His father's name is Ji, and his mother's surname is Zhǎng.

Mencius was a great thinker, educator, politician and representative of the Confucian school during the Warring States Period. Together with Confucius, he is also called "Confucius and Mencius". His representative works include "What I Want to Do with Fish", "Many Helps to the Right, Few Helps to the Unjust", "Born in Worry, Die in Peace", "The King Looks Around and Talks About Others" have been included in junior high school Chinese textbooks, and "What a few people do to the country" 》Incorporated into high school Chinese textbooks.

Politically, Mencius advocated the rule of law and benevolent government; in theory, he admired Confucius and opposed Yang Zhu and Mo Zhai. He advocated benevolent government and put forward the people-centered thought of "the people are more important than the emperor". He traveled to Qi, Song, Teng, Wei, Lu and other countries, imitating Confucius and implementing his own political ideas, which lasted for more than 20 years. However, Mencius' theory of benevolent government was considered "far-fetched and broad-minded" and was not implemented. In the end, he retreated to lecturing, and together with his students, he "prefaced the Poetry and the Book, described the meaning of Zhongni (that is, Confucius), and wrote seven chapters of Mencius."

Mencius was good at cultivating Qigong, "good at cultivating my awe-inspiring Qi". Meng Ke's Zhengqi Song of Crescent Mountain Man (Zhu Jincheng): In the awe-inspiring righteousness and moral principles, the greatest is the uprightness and wisdom; there is no greatness outside the universe, and there is no small Taisu Gong within it.

Later generations posthumously named Mencius "Ya Sheng Gong" and respected him as "Ya Sheng Gong". His disciples and subsequent disciples recorded Mencius' words and deeds in the book "Mencius", which is a collection of quotation prose and a collection of Mencius' remarks. It was compiled by Mencius and his disciple Wan Zhang.