世人多把孟子供在庙里,笼统地奉之为“亚圣”。韩愈将他捧得极高,赞他是孔子唯一继承人;朱元璋却骂其大逆不道,嚷嚷着要砍了他脑袋;冯友兰先生则冷冷地站一边,说他是地主阶级的保守派。这些评价都是后来人们定义的,难免受着评价者自己及当时思想氛围的牵制。我认为要给孟子这个老叟定位,很简单:他是一个大丈夫!景春曾经问孟子“:公孙衍,张仪岂不诚大丈夫哉?一怒而诸侯惧,安居而天下熄。” Men in the world have offered Mencius in the temple, generally enshrined as “saints”. Han Yu held him high, praising him as the only heir to Confucius; the emperor zhuo cursed him outrageously and clamoring to cut his head; and Feng Youlan stood coldly and said he was a conservative landlord class. These evaluations were later defined by people, and were inevitably constrained by the evaluators themselves and the thought atmosphere at that time. I think to give Mencius this old man a place, is very simple: he is a big man! King spring once asked Mencius: “Gongsun Yan, Zhang Yi is not sincere husband Zai? Anger and feudal fear, live in peace and the world goes out.” "