China News Service, Zoucheng, Shandong, May 2 (Wang Chongyin, Dong Xiuting, Zhao Xiao) It is the second day of the fourth lunar month, the birthday of Mencius. The 2022 Mencius Hometown (Zoucheng) Mother Culture Festival opened on May 2 in Mencius Hometown, Zoucheng, Shandong. A ceremony to commemorate Meng's mother and Mencius was held on the spot to praise the merits and virtues of Meng's mother and cherish the memory of Yasheng.

　　At 9:00 a.m. that day, the sound of "Opening the Door" sounded, and the "Song of Haoran" was played. The Mengmiaoling Star Gate slowly opened, and the 2022 Memorial Ceremony for Mother Meng and Mencius was launched.

Under the leadership of Wen Wusheng and Wu Wusheng, the descendants of the Meng family and representatives from all walks of life in Zoucheng walked to the Yasheng Temple, presented flower baskets to Mengzi, the mother of Meng, and bowed three times.

　　"Zou Lu's old county, the shore of Soo Si. Meng's mother is a great virtue, and the history is recorded in the Confucianism. She manages the family in a proper way, and teaches her children to be benevolent. The thousand-year-old Yifan, the mother teaches one person..." Meng Guangshun, the 70th-generation grandson of Mencius, passed online in Beijing. Ways to read in memory of Meng Mu and Mencius's blessings.

Zhu Wen highly praised the merits of Meng's mother, and deeply remembered Mencius' historical contribution to the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

Under the leadership of Wen Wusheng and Wu Wusheng, the descendants of the Meng family and representatives from all walks of life in Zoucheng went to the Yasheng Temple.

Photo by Lu Weifeng

　　Meng Xianxin, a descendant of the Meng family, said in an interview with reporters that "the story of Meng's mother teaching her children" is the most vivid expression of the excellent family style.

The formation of Mencius' thought of "benevolence and love", the thought of "harmony between heaven, earth and man", and the thought of "people are precious and the ruler is light" are inseparable from the education of Meng's mother.

"To carry forward and inherit the cultural connotation of mother education is to carry forward excellent family traditions and family education, and it is a concrete practice of creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese excellent traditional culture."

　　Yuan Yibin, Secretary of the CPC Zoucheng Municipal Committee, delivered a speech at the launching ceremony of the National Family Education Publicity Week series activities of the Shandong Family Education Volunteer Service Corps held on the same day.

He said that this series of activities of the National Family Education Publicity Week is one of the important activities of the 2022 Mencius Hometown (Zoucheng) Mother Culture Festival, advocating excellent family style and family education for a higher level in Zoucheng, and guiding the whole society to pay attention to and support family education. provide important opportunities.

In the near future, Zoucheng will also organize a series of activities such as the province's "smart parents", the most beautiful volunteers in family education, and the selection and awarding of outstanding service teams in family education, so as to gather the consensus and synergy of the whole society to educate people.

At the same time, with this activity as a new starting point, Zoucheng will further exert its cultural advantages, strengthen its mission, and with greater enthusiasm and efforts, inherit a good family style, carry forward good family education, and promote Zoucheng to lead the way in family education. Leading by example.

　　The reporter learned from the scene that Zoucheng has held the Mother Cultural Festival for 16 consecutive years, aiming to fully explore the cultural heritage of mother education, highlight the influence of Mencius thought and the brand of Meng mother, and continue to promote the establishment of "Chinese Mother's Day" with Mencius' birthday as the holiday.

The theme of this year's Mencius Hometown (Zoucheng) Mother's Cultural Festival is "Building morality, fostering family traditions, maintaining integrity and innovating towards the future".

　　Mencius, whose name is Ke, whose courtesy name is Ziyu, was a native of Zou State (now Zoucheng, Shandong) during the Warring States Period. He was a famous thinker, statesman, educator and representative of the Confucian school.

Mencius inherited and developed the thought of Confucius, and was honored as "Saint" by later generations.

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