This article entitled "Born in Worry and Died in Happiness" is selected from Mencius' Gao Zi Xia. This means that if God wants to put a heavy responsibility on a person, he must first make his heart ache and his bones and muscles tired.

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Shun was born in mu, Fu Shuo was born in the middle of the building, and the glue was in fish and salt. Guan Yi I was a scholar, Sun Shuai was in the sea, and a hundred miles was in the city. Therefore, when the sky falls, people must first suffer their minds, their bones and muscles, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and mess around. Therefore, patience has benefited them a lot.

People are unchangeable, then they can change, get stuck in their minds, think about it before acting, and express themselves with colors, sounds and metaphors. If you enter, there will be no legalist school, and if you leave, you will be invincible to foreign patients. The country will perish forever, and then you will know that you were born in sorrow and died in happiness.

Mencius' language is clear, plain and simple, and at the same time it is refined and accurate. As an essay, Mencius is good at argument, more artistic and expressive, and has the nature of literary prose. Among them, argumentative essays skillfully use the method of logical reasoning, and Mencius skillfully uses analogical reasoning, often playing hard to get and asking questions repeatedly.