Meng Ke 孟軻

Names

Identity

Historicity

Uncertain

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · beiqishu:036:s0109, jiutangshu:130:s0184, liangshu:008:s0239, liangshu:043:s0156, liaoshi:105:s0170, songshu:073:s0269, xinwudaishi:020:s0009, yuanshi:171:s0115, zhoushu:046:s0015
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · jinshi:035:s0250, liaoshi:044:s0024, liaoshi:060:s0078, qingshigao:113:s0031
• Value: male
  Strongly inferred · shiji:074:s0006

Roles

• Philosopher
• Scholar
• Teacher
• Writer

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Liang / 梁 · Relation: visited
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0009
• Polity: Qi / 齊 · Relation: visited
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0008
• Place: Zou / 騶
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0006

Learning and skills

• Relation: student-of-disciple-of · Person Id: Kong Ji (孔伋) · Statement: received instruction from a disciple of Zi Si / 受業子思之門人
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0007

Works and attributed material

• Work: Mengzi / 孟子 · Relation: author · Detail: seven chapters / 七篇
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0014
• Work: Odes and Documents / 詩書 · Relation: arranged
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0014
• Work: Mencius / 孟子 · Relation: author
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:113:s0031, qingshigao:113:s0032
• Kind: exposition · Role: author · Subject: the meaning of Confucius / 仲尼之意
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0014
• Kind: quotation · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: historian-citation
  Explicit · liangshu:043:s0156
• Kind: quotation · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Meng Ke (孟軻)
  Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0078
• Kind: quotation · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Meng Ke (孟軻)
  Explicit · qingshigao:113:s0032
• Kind: quotation · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: quotation
  Explicit · qingshigao:113:s0031
• Kind: quotation · Role: author · Quoted: true
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0184
• Kind: quotation · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
  Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0170
• Kind: saying · Role: author · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Meng Ke (孟軻) · Speaker Person Id: Yao Cha (姚察)
  Explicit · liangshu:008:s0239
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: King Hui of Liang (梁惠王) · Subject: cited the Great King's departure from Bin / 稱大王去邠
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0042
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Statement: Heaven is so high and the stars so distant that, if you truly seek their principles, you can sit where you are and calculate the solstice a thousand years from now.
  Explicit · liaoshi:044:s0024
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
  Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0009, xinwudaishi:020:s0010

Events and relationships

• Kind: political · Role: visitor · Action: advised · Other Person Id: King Hui of Liang (梁惠王) · Place: Liang / 梁 · Outcome: words not adopted
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0009
• Kind: scholarly · Role: teacher · Action: expounded virtues of Tang, Yu, and the Three Dynasties
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0013
• Kind: political · Role: visitor · Action: served · Other Person Id: King Xuan of Qi (齊宣王) · Place: Qi / 齊 · Outcome: not employed
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0008
• Kind: hardship · Role: subject · Action: suffered hardship · Place: Qi and Liang / 齊梁
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0039
• Relation: follower-of · Person Id: Confucius (孔子)
  Explicit · jinshi:035:s0249, jinshi:035:s0039
• Relation: collaborator-with · Person Id: Wan Zhang (萬章)
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0014

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: did not merely flatter the world to fit in · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sima Qian (太史公)
  Explicit · shiji:074:s0043
• Assessment: those who rise at cockcrow to labor in goodness are followers of Shun · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Meng Ke (孟軻) · Speaker Person Id: Yao Cha (姚察)
  Explicit · liangshu:008:s0239

Source notes

• Historicity: historical
  Explicit · liaoshi:044:s0024, liaoshi:060:s0078