From: Ming Gu Yanwu's On Learning from Friends.
The book "Mencius" is also earnest. Even Zhang Wan, Gong Sunchou, Chen Dai, Marco, Zhou Xiao and Peng Geng ask and Mencius answer, they are often concerned about the source and the acceptance of the text.
The book Mencius is also sincere, so the questions and answers with Zhang Wan, Gong Sunchou, Chen Dai, Marco, Zhou Xiao and Peng Geng often lie in the relationship between being an official and living in seclusion, leaving and taking office, refusing and accepting, gaining and paying.
Brief introduction of the author
Gu (16 15, July 2003-1February 682, 15) was born in Kunshan, South Zhili (now Kunshan, Jiangsu). Outstanding thinkers, historians, geographers and phonologists in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, together with Wang Fuzhi, Huang Zongxi and Tang Zhen, were called the "Four Great Enlightenment Thinkers" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.
Gu is knowledgeable, and has studied the national code system, anecdotes of counties and cities, astronomical phenomena, canals, military farmers, hundreds of classics and histories, and phonological exegesis. In his later years, he paid attention to textual research in Confucian classics, which opened the atmosphere of simple learning in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
He is the author of Records of Diseases in the Country of the World, Zhao Yuzhi, Five Books of Phonology, Correction of Phonology, Records of Stone Inscriptions, Poems of Lin Ting, etc.