Mencius said that "a gentleman has three pleasures" specifically as follows: "both parents exist, and brothers have no reason to be happy; Yang is worthy of the sky, and he does not care about people, and he is also happy; If you get the talents in the world and educate them, you will have three pleasures. " (Mencius devoted himself to it) It is easier to understand that "both parents exist and brothers have no reason", because in Mencius' view, "being close to each other and obeying brothers" is the concrete practice driven by "benevolence and righteousness"; It is a sign of a gentleman's perfect personality that "he is worthy of the sky and does not care for others", and Mencius also mentioned this kind of self-satisfied joy of "reflexive sincerity and great joy" in another place. As for the sentence "Educate the world's talented people", if we associate Mencius with working hard all his life and trying to achieve political achievements, but choose to "retire and preface the Poems and Books with Zhang Wan's disciples in his later years", perhaps this kind of "happiness" coincides with the so-called "Kong Yan's pleasure" and reflects the spiritual harmony of Mencius' "gentleman's pleasure". Mencius' transcendence of "the pleasure of a gentleman" is most obviously embodied in the hypothesis of "forgetting the world with joy". Disciple Tao should ask, if Shun's father killed someone, what should Shun do as the son of heaven? Mencius' answer is obviously just an idea: "Shun regards abandoning the world and abandoning my lost possessions. Steal and flee, follow the seaside, complain for life, and forget the world with joy. " ("Mencius with all my heart") For the sake of benevolence and righteousness in my heart, treating the world like a lost bag may be called the highest happiness in Mencius' ideal. Source: Chinese culture