"If you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you are rich, you will help the world." "Special chapter and sentence" from Mencius (ninth). The original sentence is "if you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you are up to it, you will help the world", which means that when you are frustrated, you should lead an honest and clean life and pay attention to improving your personal cultivation and moral character; When a person is ambitious, he should think about promoting good, that is, punishing evil and promoting good.
Mencius' experience
Mencius once took Confucius as an example and led his disciples all over the world. But it was not accepted by all countries at that time. After retirement, he wrote books with his disciples. Mencius has seven masterpieces handed down from generation to generation, namely: Liang; "Gongsun Ugly" up and down; "Teng Wengong" up and down; "Li Lou" up and down; "Zhang Wan" up and down; "Gao Zi" goes up and down; Heart and soul. His theoretical starting point is the theory of good nature, which puts forward "benevolent governance" and "kingly governance" and advocates rule by virtue. ?
In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu called Mencius, The Analects of Confucius, Daxue and The Doctrine of the Mean the Four Books. Mencius is the largest and heaviest of the four books, with more than 35 thousand words. From then until the end of Qing Dynasty, "Four Books" had been a compulsory part of the imperial examination.