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Mencius' famous saying about "Zhou Jun Min Shui"
If it is the landlord's sentence, it should be said by Li Shimin.

But I remember what he said.

Because I remember the original words are "Jun, the boat is also; People, water also; Water can carry a boat or overturn it. "

In order to avoid Li Shimin's taboo, the Tang Dynasty changed "human" to "human", which was reflected in many articles in the Tang Dynasty.

Confucianists

Xunzi (about 365438 BC+03-238 BC) was a famous Qing, which was also called because it was taboo to publicize Emperor Liu Xun in the Western Han Dynasty and because the two words "Xun" and "Sun" had the same ancient sound. Han nationality, Zhou Dynasty, late Warring States period, came from Zhao family (now Anze, Shanxi). A famous thinker, writer, politician and one of the representatives of Confucianism, he is known as "Xun Qing". He went to Gong Xue, Xia Ji, the State of Qi for three times, and was later ordered by Lan Ling of Chu (now Lan Ling of Shandong). Xunzi developed Confucianism and advocated the theory of evil nature, which is often compared with Mencius' theory of good nature. It has also made considerable contributions to the collation of Confucian classics.

The masterpiece Xunzi