“Keeping one’s health and losing one’s life without regrets is the beginning of the kingly way.” Translated into modern Chinese: Common people have no regrets about supporting the living and doing funerals for the dead. This is the beginning of the kingly way. .

The words come from "Mencius, King Hui of Liang, the role of a widower in the country". Keep in good health: provide for the living. Bereavement: To hold funerals for the deceased. Regret: Regret, dissatisfaction. King's Way: Rule the world with benevolence and righteousness. This is the political proposition of Confucianism, which is opposite to the "hegemony" pursued by the princes at that time to unify the world by force. Shi: Beginning, beginning.

King Hui of Liang asked Mencius how to increase the number of people in his country. Mencius told him: If the agricultural production season is not delayed, there will be too much food to eat. If the dense net is not lowered into the pond, fish and turtles will not be able to eat them all. If you go into the mountains to cut trees according to certain seasons, you will not be able to use up all the wood. There is endless food and aquatic products to eat, and there is endless wood to use up. This will make the people have no dissatisfaction with maintaining their health and losing their lives, and people will gather in your country. Once this goal is achieved, the royal path begins.

"Keeping one's health and losing one's life without regrets is the beginning of the king's way", which is the finishing touch of the article and highlights the main purpose of this article: Only by implementing benevolent government can we win the hearts and minds of the people; only by winning the hearts and minds of the people can we conquer the world. This idea of ??"protecting the people and becoming king" is actually a concrete embodiment of Mencius' "people-centered" thought.