Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi, the birthplace of Laozi.

Confucius was born in Shandong (now Qufu City, Shandong Province), Mencius was born in fu cun, west of Zou Maanshan, Qurenli, Lixian Township, Lao Zi, and Song and Zhuangzi (now Mengcheng, Anhui Province and Shangqiu, Henan Province). Confucius put forward that the goal of education is to cultivate gentlemen. He emphasized that "women are gentlemen, Confucianism, and nothing more than villains." (The Analects of Confucius Yong Ye also explains in detail the specific requirements of a gentleman. The paragraph "Luz asks a gentleman" in the Confucian Xianwen suggests that a gentleman includes three levels: self-cultivation for respect, self-cultivation for harmony and self-cultivation for harmony. It can be seen that there is an obvious correspondence between his educational goals and the "eight items" in universities (discipline, knowledge, honesty, honesty, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world), which essentially opens the ideological source of Confucian education's pursuit of the goal of "being sage inside and being king outside". The object of basic education of human nature is people, and research education should first explore human nature. In the long-term educational practice, Confucius put forward the concept of human nature and initiated the ancient educational theory based on the theory of human nature, especially the moral education theory. Source: Knowledge Base