The education of Mencius' mother influenced his life, just as all mothers influence their children's lives. The best of the best, like Meng's mother, is enough to bear the title of "Chinese mother". At this year's National Two Sessions, Zhang Jianhua, former deputy political commissar of the Army of the Northern Theater of Operations, together with 26 female delegates of the PLA delegation, jointly proposed to set up a "Chinese Mother's Day" with Meng Zi's mother as the model. He suggested that the time of Mencius' birth should be designated as "Chinese Mother's Day", and that it should be designated as a legal holiday for mothers nationwide. The call for "creating a Chinese Mother's Day" has once again entered the public eye, and the contemporary interpretation of filial piety culture has gradually become a cultural phenomenon. The Three Moves of Mencius' mother and the mother's culture of filial piety is the first of all good deeds. Mencius' mother, one of the four wise mothers in ancient times, has become the spokesperson for people to regain filial piety. As a Confucian scholar second only to Confucius, Mengzi's success was closely related to the education of his mother, the Equuschick. Meng's mother, who lost her husband at an early age, never remarried and raised her son alone. At first, she and Mencius lived near her husband's mausoleum so that they could visit him every day. But after living in such a place for a long time, the young Mencius even learned the wailing nonsense of the undertakers. Meng's mother felt that such a living environment was not conducive to her child's growth, so she moved her home to the marketplace. However, Meng Zi learned how to do business from the hawkers and merchants. Meng's mother moved her home to a school neighborhood. From then on, Mencius followed the school's scholars and "studied well, and rose up every day." The reason why Meng's mother moved three times was because she knew the truth: "Environment affects a person's growth." Meng's mother also told the story of "The loom was cut off when the son did not study." She taught Meng Zi that if one stops studying halfway, it is like weaving a piece of cloth halfway through its weaving process, which cannot be used for human purposes. Similarly, if a person does not study hard when he is young, he can only do hard labor when he grows up, and he will have no future. From then on, Mencius studied hard and became a scholar of the world. Meng's mother's education influenced Meng Zi's life, just as all mothers influence their children's life. And Meng's mother was good enough to bear the title of "Mother of China". Volume 9 of the Extraordinary Biography of Han Shi says, "A virtuous mother makes her son virtuous," which means that a virtuous mother emphasizes education so that her child will grow up to be a person of both virtue and talent. In the history of the Chinese nation, there have been a lot of wise mothers and famous mothers, who understood "women's way" and taught their children well, fully demonstrating the educational power of mothers. The Female Fan Jie Lu" has a cloud: "Therefore, the mother's etiquette is preceded by the father's training, and the teaching of charity is stricter than that of righteousness". The end of the Ming Dynasty, Wen Juan from a young age by his mother's strict education, had recorded his mother's advice into the "Wen's mother training" book. Later, his family was martyred for resisting the Qing soldiers, and he was praised by the people at that time, who called him "not ashamed of his mother's teachings". The famous modern Buddhist master Yin Guang said: "The right to rule the country and pacify the world, the woman's family to manipulate a large part." Dr. Sun Yat-sen also famously said, "The peace and security of the world depends on the woman, and the prosperity of the family depends on the mother." Mother's excellent education methods and even spread abroad, especially by some Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea, accepted, in the textbooks of South Korean elementary school students now also have "Meng mother three moves" article, some streets in Japan hanging not commercial advertisements, but "the effect of Meng mother three moves In Japan, some streets are hung not with commercial advertisements, but with public service slogans such as "follow the example of Meng's mother". China's traditional culture has always focused on filial piety rule, rule the country, rule the world, but we do not have their own Mother's Day, which has a long and brilliant ethical civilization of the country, can not be considered a pity. Zoucheng: a city and the birth of "Chinese Mother's Day" According to incomplete statistics, as a big festival of human relationships, the world has more than 70 countries have their own national Mother's Day. In China, in addition to Zoucheng, Shijiazhuang and other places as a pilot, Henan Xinxiang, Shanxi Taiyuan, Ningxia Yinchuan, Guangxi Liuzhou and other more than 10 cities in the education sector have begun to respond to the arrival of the "Chinese Mother's Day", advocating that each student for the mother to do a good thing or to send a homemade gift to write a paper to the "Chinese Mother's Day". "Chinese Mother's Day" as the theme of the essay. In addition to using Mencius as the spokesperson for Mother's Day, some scholars have suggested that the birthdays of the Chinese grandmothers, Rayon and Nuwa, be established as Chinese Mother's Day. In fact, no matter who is set as "mother", filial piety is no longer a story, but is actually being commemorated and practiced. 1992, Zoucheng set up by the Shandong Provincial Women's Federation in charge of the study of Mencius mother taught son, organized the "Mencius mother taught son symposium". December 13, 2007, Mother's Day Association for the establishment of the General Assembly and the first plenary meeting held in Zoucheng, Shandong Province, where the creation of the Chinese Mother's Day "initiative. Zoucheng has been passed down through the generations to commemorate the birthday of Mencius, and in the Ming Wanli this "three move the Zhi" and other documents have a corresponding basis, so the meeting decided to Mencius's birthday - the second day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, set as the Chinese Mother's Day is most appropriate. In recent years, Zoucheng has organized the "ten mothers" "ten filial stars" "good daughter-in-law" "good mother-in-law" Selection activities, recognizing the "good mother" more than 1,000, set up a "ten good mother standard-bearer". At the same time, held a "good mother" exhibition, produced a special film on family education, set up a family education publicity window in the city's busy area, creating a strong atmosphere of tutelage. 2016 April 29, the tenth "Chinese Mother's Day" was held in Zoucheng. The tenth "Chinese Mother's Day" was held in Zoucheng on April 29, 2016. Whether from the form or from the content, "Chinese Mother's Day" are trying to more vividly publicize the 2000 years ago, the mother of the good son of the good recipe. Ceremony held in the Temple of Meng Ya Sheng Hall. Political dignitaries at all levels, Confucian scholars, descendants of the Mengzi clan and the public nearly a thousand people attended the ceremony. At 9 o'clock in the morning, with the master of ceremonies a "open casement", the latticework door of the Temple of Meng slowly opened, in the distant, solemn classical ritual music, to participate in the commemoration of the ceremony of the personnel slowly into the temple, through the Temple of Asia Sacred Stone Square, Taishan meteorological door, Cheng Shengmen door of the Square, to the Temple of Asia Sacred Standing in front of the stage. Meng Temple music melodious, painted with the word "Confucian" and phoenix bird pattern of a flag dancing in the wind, Meng Zi's hometown of a hundred children and teenagers on both sides of the sacred path in the parade reciting the "Mengzi" quotes, a long memory. After the ceremony began, representatives at all levels to lay flower baskets and pay homage to the mother of Meng, Mengzi. The then mayor of Zoucheng City, Xie Chenghai read the sacrifice to the mother of Meng, Mengzi text, "Zulu ancient, the legacy of the wind is still warm. Mencius was a young man, early mother's grace", "the people are noble and the king is light, benevolent government first. Deafening, yi moment seven articles," the festival counts the achievements of the mother of the ancient maternal culture of our country, in memory of the saintly master Mencius made outstanding contributions to Chinese and world culture. Since 2007, Zoucheng City has been held for ten years to carry forward the spirit of the mother as the main _ capacity of the Mother Culture Festival series of activities, and to prepare for the construction of the Chinese Mother Culture Park. So far, Zoucheng Mother Culture Festival has gone through 10 years of history, the Chinese Mother Culture Festival has become the characteristics of Zoucheng cultural brands, cultural festivals as the development of cultural undertakings in Zoucheng, active people's lives, to promote the construction of spiritual civilization of the leading projects, its cultural value and social role has initially appeared. Over the past ten years, the establishment of "Chinese own Mother's Day" proposal has been widely recognized by more and more cities and all walks of life, there are 20 provinces and cities in the country, more than 100 cities to organize the Chinese Mother's Day activities. On the morning of March 20 this year, 2017 Mengzi hometown (Zoucheng) Mother's Cultural Festival press conference was held in Beijing, announced that this year's Mother's Cultural Festival will be held in Zoucheng from April 25th to May 3rd. Source: Qilu Weekly