Mencius' theory was recognized by the imperial court in the Northern Song Dynasty, and there were official sacrificial activities. With Mencius as the first generation, from the second generation of Mencius to the 44th generation of Gong Ji, most people only have his name without detailed deeds. 1037, the son of Meng was appointed by the court to preside over the sacrifice of Mencius and the revision of Meng's genealogy. Since then, the context of Meng's descendants has become clear.
From the fiftieth generation, Montessori began to consciously implement seniority. From the 50 th generation to the 55 th generation, the generations are: "morality, ancestors, health, wisdom, Sri Lanka and grams." However, due to the war, seniority was not strictly enforced.
In the Ming Dynasty, in order to show respect for Confucius and Mencius, Zhu Yuanzhang specially gave ten words as synonyms for descendants of Confucius and Mencius, namely, "Gong Yancheng, Shang Zhen Yin." Since then, the Confucius and Mencius family began to strictly sort the generations. During the Chongzhen period, Duke Kong wrote to the emperor in the sixty-fifth generation, and made a cross of ten generations, "The stars are widely spread, and Zhao Xian celebrates the numerous auspicious". During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Kong Xiangke, the 75th generation duke of feasts, with the approval of the emperor, made a cross of ten generations, "to make Dewei look down on you and Qin Shao look up to you". In the Qing Dynasty, in order to avoid the conflict between the word "Yin" and the word "Hong" in Emperor Qianlong's Li Hong, the word "Hong" was changed to "Hong" and the word "Yin" was changed to "Yan". 19 19, Kong Lingyi, the duke of the 76th generation feast, asked the approval of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Beiyang Government of the Republic of China to continue to establish the record of the 20th generation, which was reported in the newspapers.
Since Mencius, Meng's word generation can be ranked as 105. If we take 20 years as a generation, starting from the Ming Dynasty, 50 words can be ranked as 1000, which can be photographed in the second half of the 24th century. In other words, it will be more than 300 years before there will be Montessori descendants with the word "Chang".
It is worth mentioning that in history, only Confucius and Mencius used the substitute characters given by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, but later Yan Zeng's surname also used the same substitute characters as Confucius and Mencius. Why? Originally, based on the inheritance, spread and development of Confucianism, Yan Hui and Zeng Shen also contributed. Yan Hui, the most proud disciple of Confucius, died young at the age of 32. Confucius sighed: "Alas! The day has passed! The sky is lost! " Later generations also revered Yan Hui and gave him posthumously to Yan Gong, who followed him to the Confucius Temple. Zeng Shen was the teacher of Confucius' grandson Zisi, and Zisi was also the teacher of Mencius. Ceng Zi inherited Confucius' orthodoxy and enlightened Mencius, and later generations revered him as a saint.
Yan Hui, Zeng Shen, Zi Si and Mencius were worshiped in the Confucius Temple in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, Yan Hui was named Fu by the imperial court, and Zeng Shen was the Sect, Zi Si was Shu, and Mencius was elegant. Even the saints Confucius, Yasheng Mencius, Fusheng Yanhui and Zongsheng Ceng Zi are called the Four Saints of Confucianism, and they are regarded as one family, so the four schools are sorted according to a unified word generation.