Mozi's hometown has no specific historical evidence. I don't know where his hometown is Mozi, whose real name was Zhai (dí), was a Song poet in the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the early Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Mozi, a descendant of Mu Yi, an aristocrat in the Song Dynasty, worked as a doctor in the Song Dynasty. He was the founder of Mohism and a famous thinker, educator, scientist and strategist in the Warring States Period.

Mozi is the only philosopher born as a farmer in the history of China. Mozi founded Mohism, which had a great influence in the pre-Qin period, and was called "one of the best" with Confucianism.

He put forward the viewpoints of "universal love", "non-aggression", "Shang Xian", "Shang Tong", "ambition", "ghost", "death", "unhappiness" and "frugality". Take universal love as the core, frugality and sage as the fulcrum.

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Early experience

Mozi was born a commoner. When he was young, he worked as a shepherd boy and studied carpentry. It is said that his skill in making guarding city equipment is better than that of bus class. He claimed to be "my man" and was called "the man in cloth". As a descendant of the declining aristocracy, he naturally received an indispensable cultural education. According to historical records, Mozi worked as a doctor in the Song Dynasty.

Mozi is a scholar with considerable cultural knowledge and close to small producers of workers and peasants. He boasts that "nothing is difficult above the monarch and nothing is difficult under the agriculture", and he is a scholar who sympathizes with the "people of peasants and workers". In his hometown, the Yellow River flows eastward, and Mozi is determined to go out, visit famous teachers in the world, learn the way of governing the country, and restore the glory that his ancestors once had.

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