1. If you don’t get closeness, you can’t be a human being; if you don’t get closeness, you can’t be a son. ——Mencius’ explanation: If a son does not get along well with his parents, he cannot be a good person; if a son cannot obey his parents’ wishes in everything, he cannot be a son. 2. Father and son are related, monarch and ministers are righteous, husband and wife are different, elders and children are related, and friends are trustworthy. ——Mencius explained: Father and son must love each other, there must be appropriate rules between monarch and ministers, there must be distinction between husband and wife, there must be an order of respect and inferiority between elder and younger, and there must be integrity among friends. 3. Only being filial to your parents can relieve worries. ——Mencius’ explanation: Parents are our spiritual support. The father is the sky and the mother is the earth. The weather in heaven and earth is smooth, and all things thrive. We are filial to our parents, and our parents are very happy, so why should we worry? ! 4. When I am old, I am in harmony with others; when I am young, I am in harmony with others. The world can be transported in the palm of your hand. ——Mencius’ explanation: Respect one’s parents and elders, thereby extending to respecting everyone’s parents and elders; caring for one’s own children, thereby extending to caring for everyone’s children. By doing this, unifying the world is like turning something in the palm of your hand. easy. 5. A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world does not share them. Having both parents and brothers without any reason is one kind of happiness; looking up to Heaven and not being ashamed of others is the second kind of happiness; being able to educate the talented people from all over the world is the third kind of happiness. A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world does not share them. ——Mencius’ explanation: A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, and these three kinds of happiness have nothing to do with governing the world. The first happiness is to have both parents and brothers well; to look up to heaven and not be ashamed of others is the second happiness; to get good students from all over the world and then educate them is the third happiness. 6. Love what your parents love, and respect what your parents respect. ——Confucius’ explanation: We should treat the people or things that our parents love, cherish and respect with the same attitude. 7. One must not know the age of one’s parents. One is for joy, the other is for fear. ——Interpretation of "The Analects of Confucius": It means that parents' birthdays must be known. On the one hand, they should be happy, and on the other hand, they should be afraid. I'm afraid because my parents are one year older. 8. The virtuous and the unworthy cannot be separated. If fate cannot be changed, if good and evil cannot be moved. ——Interpretation of "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals": It means: A person must have a stand and cannot distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil, beauty and ugliness. Just like numerology and appearance are innate, people should also have the ability to distinguish.