Mencius said

Author: Cai Zhizhong
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Publish Date: 2004-03-06
Features: Modern multimedia book, one genre, three forms of expression, book + animation + interactive game disc (DVD + CD-ROM), triple value, new visual experience! Official launch! If Confucian thought was integrated and pioneered by Confucius, then the credit for promoting it should go to Mencius. During the Han Dynasty, Zhao Ji revered Mencius as "the second greatest sage of the age with exceptional talent"; the great scholar Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a book praising Mencius for truly inheriting the essence of Confucius, using his persuasive skills to refute heresy and erroneous arguments, profoundly influencing later generations, calling him "second only to Yu in merit," and developing him into the representative of the new Confucianism, the second major master of Confucianism; the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty compiled the "Four Books" (including the Analects, Mencius, Great Learning, and Doctrine of the Mean) into the Collected Annotations on the Four Books, further elevating Mencius's status; the Yuan Dynasty cultural figure then called Mencius the "Second Sage of Zou."