What is the relationship between Mencius, Zhuangzi and Laozi?

Their birth order is Laozi, Confucius, Mozi, Mencius and Zhuangzi.

1, Confucius: Born in 55 BC1year.

2. Mozi: Born in 468 BC.

3. Mencius: Born in 372 BC.

4. Zhuangzi: Born in 369 BC.

5. Laozi: Born around 570 BC.

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Zhuangzi: a thinker, philosopher and writer in the mid-Warring States period. Zhuang, Zhou, was born in the Song Dynasty. His ancestor was the Duke of the Song Dynasty and the monarch of the Song Dynasty. He is the representative of Taoist school after Laozi and founded Zhuangzi, an important philosophical school in China. Also known as "Lao Zi" with Lao Zi.

Mencius: Ji, named Meng, was born in Zouguo (now Zoucheng, Jining, Shandong) during the Warring States Period. A famous philosopher, thinker, politician and educator in the Warring States period, one of the representatives of Confucianism, was second only to Confucius, and was also called "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius. Advocating "benevolent government", he first put forward the idea that "the people are more expensive than the monarch".

Mozi: Ming Zhai (dí), a Song native at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the beginning of the Warring States Period, spoke about Luyang people and Teng people. Mozi, a descendant of Mu Yi, an aristocrat in the Song Dynasty, worked as a doctor in the Song Dynasty. He was the founder of Mohism and a famous thinker, educator, scientist and strategist in the Warring States Period.

Confucius: Zi surnamed Kong, born in the late Spring and Autumn Period (now Qufu, Shandong Province), whose ancestral home is Yi Li (now Xiayi, Henan Province), was an ancient thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism in China.

Confucius initiated the wind of private schools and advocated benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. There are 3,000 disciples, including 72 sages. He led some disciples to travel around the world for thirteen years, and revised the six classics of Poetry, Book, Rite, Yue, Yijing and Chunqiu in his later years. After the death of Confucius, his disciples and re-disciples recorded the words and deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples and compiled The Analects. This book is regarded as a Confucian classic.

Lao Zi: Li Minger, whose real name is Bo Yang, or Bo Yang. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the year of birth and death is unknown, and it was born in the county (ancient county name) of Chen (who later entered Chu) at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period in 57 BC/KLOC-0 BC. China was an ancient thinker, philosopher, writer and historian, the founder and main representative of Taoist school.

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