Mencius' famous words are commendable.
The famous saying "Stand tall, bow down and be a willing ox, walk among the people and stop at the heart" comes from the classics of China sages. It is a masterpiece of profound proverbs and famous sayings, the crystallization of the wisdom of generations of China people and the cultural essence of the excellent tradition of the Chinese nation. This sentence means to be upright and open-minded, to hold one's head high and be worthy of the sky, to bow down and be worthy of others, not to do anything against one's will, and not to do anything embarrassing.
"I am worthy of the sky, I don't care about people." A sentence comes from Mencius with all his heart. Mencius said: "A gentleman has three pleasures, but the king of the world does not exist. Parents exist, brothers have no chance, and they are happy; Yang is worthy of the sky, regardless of people, but also happy; It is three pleasures to be educated by talents in the world. A gentleman has three pleasures, but the king of the world does not exist. "
Mencius once said: "a gentleman has three pleasures, but being king is not one of them." Parents are alive, and brothers are not sick or suffering, which is the first happy thing; Looking up is worthy of the sky and bowing down is worthy of people, which is the second happiest thing; Getting the best people in the world and educating them is the third happy thing. Gentlemen have these three pleasures, and benevolence is not one of them. "
Mencius' famous saying
(1) If you don't follow the rules, you can't be Fiona Fang.
Without compasses and rulers, squares and circles cannot be drawn correctly.
(2) Correct, then weight; Degree, then know the length.
Only when translation has weight can we know the weight; Measure it and you'll know the length.
(3) People can do something without doing it, and then they can do something.
People can only make a difference if they don't do it.
(4) Although there are things that are easy to live in the world, if it is violent for one day and cold for ten days, no one can live.
Even if there is a plant that grows most easily, if it is dried for one day and frozen for ten days, nothing can grow again.
(5) sharp is slow.
People who advance too hard will retreat too fast.
(6) the official of the heart, what you think, what you get. Not without thinking.
The organ function of the heart lies in thinking, which can be obtained only by thinking, but can not be obtained without thinking.
(7) Born in sorrow, died in happiness.
Sadness and injury are enough to make people live, and comfort and happiness are enough to make people die.
(8) Only the benevolent should occupy high positions. Being unkind and in a high position is to spread its evil to the public.
Only virtuous and kind people should be in the leading position. If an immoral person with low morality is in a dominant position, he will spread his sins to the masses.
(9) The son of heaven is ruthless and does not care about the four seas; The princes are heartless and do not protect the country; Doctor Qing is ruthless and does not protect the ancestral temple; Shu Ren is heartless. He didn't protect his four bodies.
If the son of heaven cannot be kind, he cannot keep his world; If the princes are unkind, they will lose their country; Qing and the doctor can't be good, so they can't keep his ancestral temple; Ordinary people can't be kind, so they can't keep fit.
(10) The monarch is kind and invincible.
The king of a country loves benevolence, and the world is invincible.
(1 1) save punishment, collect taxes thinly, and cultivate deeply easily (N U).
Reduce punishment and taxes, let people work hard and get rid of dirty grass early.
(12) The benevolent is invincible.
The benevolent is invincible in the world.
(13) A five-acre house can be made of mulberry trees, and fifty people can wear clothes and silk. Chickens, dolphins and dogs are all domestic animals, so there is no time to waste. Seventy people can eat meat. One hundred acres of land, if you don't hurry, a family of eight can be hungry. I sincerely hope that the godson of the cult will be filial, and the winners will not be on the road.
Each family gives him five acres of land, surrounded by mulberry trees, and people over 50 can have silk cotton-padded jackets to wear. Domestic animals such as chickens, dogs and pigs have the strength to feed and reproduce, and people over 70 years old will have meat to eat. The family gave him 100 acres of land, and without interfering with his production, a family of eight could eat enough. Run schools at all levels well and enlighten them repeatedly with the principle of filial piety and love for brothers. Then, the old man with gray hair will be helped by others, and he will not walk on the road with his head up and things on his back.
(14) Easy land, thin tax, people can get rich.
Doing a good job in agriculture and reducing taxes can make people rich.
(15) Ren Jun showed no mercy; Junyi, all righteousness; Jun Zheng, Mo Zheng.
The monarch is kind, and no one is unkind; Monarchism, no one is unjust; The monarch is right and no one is wrong.
(16) People are happy when they are happy; People have their worries, and people have their worries.
Those who take the pleasure of the people as their own pleasure will also take the pleasure of the monarch as their own pleasure; Those who take the worries of the people as their own worries, the people will also take the worries of the monarch as their own worries.
(17) Benevolence is glory, but unkindness is humiliation.
When princes and ministers practice benevolent government, there will be glory; If you behave inhumanely, you will be humiliated.
(18) Those who have a constant birth have perseverance, and those who have no constant birth have no perseverance. Without perseverance, you will do whatever you want.
People with certain industrial income have certain moral concepts and codes of conduct, while people without certain industrial income will not have certain moral concepts and codes of conduct. If there is no certain moral concept and code of conduct, you will run amok, violate the law and discipline, and do anything.
(19) scramble for land to kill people; Fighting for the city, killing people and taking the city, this so-called cannibalism, is unforgivable.
Fighting for land and killing people everywhere; Fighting for the city, killing people all over the city, is that the territory eats human flesh, and the death penalty is not enough to atone for its crimes.
(20) If you are a minister like a brother, then I regard you as my heart; If you treat me like a dog or a horse, then I will treat you like a Chinese; If you treat me like dirt, then I treat you like an enemy.
The monarch regards his deputies as his brothers and sisters, and his deputies will also regard the monarch as their confidant; The monarch regards his lieutenants as cattle and horses, and his lieutenants will also regard the monarch as ordinary people they meet on the road; The monarch regards his subordinates as dirt or weeds, and his subordinates will also regard the monarch as an enemy.
(2 1) Fish, what I want, bear's paw also wants; You can't have your cake and eat it. You can't have your cake and eat it. Life is what I want, and righteousness is what I want; You can't have both, and you have to sacrifice your life for righteousness.
Fish is my favorite food, and so is bear's paw. If I can't eat both, I will throw away the fish and eat the bear's paw. Life is what I love, righteousness is what I love; If I can't have both, I will sacrifice my life for justice.
(22) I am old, and people are old; Young people, young people, young people.
Respect my elders, thus extending to respect others' elders; Take care of your younger generation, thus extending to the younger generation who care about others.
(23) Those who gain the Tao will help more, while those who lose the Tao will help less. If you help less, your relatives will help, and if you help more, the world will be smooth.
Many people help those who are kind, but few people help those who are unkind. Even his relatives opposed him when there were very few people who helped him; When so many people helped him, the whole world turned to him.
(24) the weather is not as good as the geographical position, and the geographical position is not as good as people.
Opportunities vouchsafed by Heaven are outmatched by terrestrial advantages, which in turn are outmatched by the harmony among people.
Killing an innocent person is neither benevolence nor righteousness.
It is unkind to kill an innocent person; It's unfair to get it when you don't have it.
(26) A benevolent thief is called a "thief" and a righteous thief is called a "remnant". The remnant thief is called "Lady". Never heard of killing, never heard of killing the king.
Those who destroy kindness are called "thieves" and those who destroy morality are called "disabled people". We call such a person a "single husband". I only heard that Zhou Wuwang killed her husband Yin Zhou, but I never heard that he killed his minister, the monarch.
(27) The sage reigns and the Almighty reigns.
Make virtuous people occupy considerable official positions, and talented people occupy certain positions.
(28) Respect the sages, and Jie Jun reigns.
Respect moral people, use capable people, and excellent people have official positions.
(29) the people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the light.
People are the most important, followed by Tugu God, who represents the country and the monarch is the least.
(30) Civil affairs is urgent.
Caring for the people is the most urgent task.
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Mencius introduced
Mencius (about 372 BC-289 BC) was born in Zouguo (now southeast of Zoucheng City, Shandong Province). Philosophers, thinkers and educators in the Warring States period were the representatives of Confucianism after Confucius and before Xunzi, and they were also called "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius.
Mencius advocated "benevolent government" and first put forward the idea that "the people are more important than the monarch", which was listed by Han Yu as a figure who inherited Confucius' "orthodoxy" in pre-Qin Confucianism and was named "Ya Sheng" in Yuan Dynasty.
Mencius' speech works are included in the book Mencius. Among them, I want what I want, I get more help from the Tao, and I get less help from the Tao. I am also in China, born in sorrow and died in happiness, and so on. Be incorporated into middle school Chinese textbooks.