Gongsun Chou was a native of Qi during the Warring States Period and a disciple of Mencius. He once waited with Wan Zhang for the book "Mencius". Gongsun Chou recorded a lot of his words in Mencius. There are two chapters of Gongsun Chou, with more than 6,000 words. "Mencius Gongsun Chou Chapter 1" notes: "Gongsun Chou was a disciple of Mencius (Ke) and a native of Qi. Mencius had not yet gained political power, so Chou set up a poem to ask about it."

The famous "The weather is not as good as the weather." The geographical advantage is not as good as the harmony between people" and "Those who have gained the Tao will get many help, but those who have lost the Tao will have little help", that is, the dialogue between Gongsun Chou and Mencius, recorded in "Gongsun Chou Chapter 2". These famous sayings are still used today, which shows that Gongsun Chou was a very knowledgeable person.

Supplement: Gongsun Chou, like his teacher Mencius, never held an official position in his life, because it had entered the Warring States Period. All major countries adopted Legalist ideas and began to reform, enriching the country and strengthening the army, while Confucianism In this environment where etiquette has collapsed and music has collapsed, the idea of ????has long ceased to be popular. What's more, Mencius also said that "the people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least." Apart from empty talk, which prince is willing to use people from his group?

However, in the later unified feudal dynasty, Confucius and Mencius' emphasis on "benevolence" and "propriety" were adopted by successive emperors. In the Northern Song Dynasty, in the fifth year of Emperor Huizong's reign (AD 1115), Gongsun Chou was posthumously named Shouguang Bo. He died for more than a thousand years before he became prominent.