明末,山东南部发生了以徐鸿儒为首的白莲教农民起义。孟子故里邹县是其较早占领并最后陷落的据点。山东巡抚赵彦率重兵镇压,双方死伤数万人。官兵与起义军交战中,亚圣六十代孙、世袭翰林院五经博士孟承光率家丁等助官兵攻城。官兵撤退,起义军杀害了孟承光及其母、子,将孟府夷为平地,但孟庙没有受损。 At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a peasant uprising in White Lotus Province led by Xu Hongru in southern Shandong. The hometown of Mencius, Zouxian, was a stronghold of its occupation and its subsequent fall. Shandong governor Zhao Yan rate heavy repression, tens of thousands of casualties on both sides. During the battle between officers and soldiers and the rebel forces, the 60th generation Sun Yat-sen and the hereditary imperialist Imperial Academy of Five were led by officers such as Meng Chenguang and Jia Chengguang. With the retreat of officers and soldiers, the rebel forces killed Meng Chenguang and his mother and son, and flattened Meng House, but the Meng Temple was not damaged.