Confucius and Mencius' achievements in life

Mencius is one of the most important representatives of Confucianism. The Biography of Han Chu Yuan said: "After the death of Confucius, many people wrote articles. Only Monk ... knows the past and the present, and his words have filled the world. " However, Mencius' position before the Song Dynasty was not very high, and there was even a limerick satirizing Mencius: "Why are there many chickens next door?" Have beggars ever had two wives? Emperor Zhou is in fashion. Why talk about it? " [2]。 Since Han Yu wrote The Original Road in the mid-Tang Dynasty and listed Mencius as the only figure in pre-Qin Confucianism who inherited Confucian orthodoxy, there has been an "upgrading movement" of Mencius, and the status of Mencius and his works has gradually risen. Song Shenzong Xining four years (107 1), Mencius was included in the imperial examination for the first time. In the sixth year of Yuanfeng (1083), Mencius was officially named "Zou Guogong" for the first time, and he was allowed to enjoy the Confucius Temple the following year. Later, Mencius was promoted to a Confucian classic. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu combined Mencius with The Analects of Confucius, Daxue and The Doctrine of the Mean into four books, and their actual status was even higher than that of the Five Classics. From the Yuan Dynasty to the first year of Shun Dynasty (1330), Mencius was named "Asian Saint" and later called "Asian Saint", ranking second only to Confucius. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang edited Mencius Festival, and deleted some chapters and sentences in Mencius, such as "People are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the least important", "A thief is called a husband, and killing a gentleman is unheard of". Zhu Yuanzhang once said, "Let the old man be spared today! He also told the world that many of Mencius' remarks "do not apply to courtiers." Ordered Mencius to be expelled from the Confucian Temple. The next day, Qiantang tried to dissuade him. In addition, the civil servants in heaven also played a dim role in the satellite, so Zhu Yuanzhang issued another decree: "Mencius opposed heresy according to reason, saying that he invented Confucius' way to ward off evil spirits and enjoyed it as before", and restored Mencius' treatment in the Confucian temple. [3] Vietnamese scholar Zhang said in his article: "For a scholar-bureaucrat, the Tao of Yao and Shun is not, and the Tao of Confucius and Mencius is not written."