Source: Mencius in the pre-Qin period
Today, people who are equally clumsy are not what Wang Zhidao and Zi Beizi learned, and they are also different from Ceng Zi. I've heard of people moving to trees outside the valley, but I've never heard of people coming down from trees into the valley.
Nowadays, this grotesque southern country is unscrupulous in slandering the sage of the former king, but you betrayed your teacher and learned from him, which is totally contrary to Ceng Zi's attitude. I've only heard of flying out of a dark ravine and moving to a big tree. I've never heard of flying down from a big tree and moving to a dark ravine.
Introduction to the work:
Mencius is one of the Confucian classics in China, which records the thoughts and political strategies of Mencius, a thinker in the Warring States Period, and is compiled by Mencius and his disciples. Mencius occupies a very important position in Confucian classics and is one of the "Four Books".
There are seven books in Mencius, which is a compilation of Mencius' remarks during the Warring States Period. It records the arguments between Mencius and other schools, the words and deeds of disciples, and the lobbying of princes. It was compiled by Mencius and his disciples (Zhang Wan and others). Mencius recorded Mencius' thoughts on governing the country, political strategies (the debate between benevolence and Wang Ba, people-oriented, respecting the right and wrong of the monarch's heart, the people being the monarch and the monarch following it) and political actions. Written in the mid-Warring States period, it belongs to Confucian classics.