The Four Sages, Assessors,
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The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning, & the Doctrine of the Mean
'. 1893. or Correlates () are four eminent Chinese philosophy, Chinese philosophers in the Confucianism, Confucian tradition. They are traditionally accorded a kind of sainthood and their spirit tablets are prominently placed in Confucian temples, two upon the east and two upon the west side of the Hall of the Great Completion (''Dacheng Dian'').
The Four Sages are:
* Yan Hui (521–481 BC), Confucius's favourite disciples of Confucius, disciple, one of the main characters in Analects
* Zengzi or Zeng Shen (505–435 BC), another disciple of Confucius and author of the ''Great Learning''
* Zisi or Kong Ji (481–402 BCE), Confucius's grandson, student of Zengzi, and author of the ''Doctrine of the Mean''
* Mencius or Master Meng (372–289 BC), student of Zisi and author of the ''Mencius (book), Mencius.''
Within a traditional Confucian temple, Yan Hui's tablet is placed first to the east of Confucius.
The families of the descendants of the Four Sages w:zh:四氏, 四氏 still hold hereditary offices in the Republic of China (Taiwan) such as the Sacrificial Official to Confucius, "Sacrificial Official to Mencius", "Sacrificial Official to Zengzi", and "Sacrificial Official to Yan Hui". They use Generation name#Generation poem, generation poems for their names given to them by the Ming and Qing Emperors.
孟姓 (The Meng family, descendants of Mencius)
:希言公彥承，宏聞貞尚衍；
:興毓傳繼廣，昭憲慶繁祥；
:令德維垂佑，欽紹念顯揚；
:建道敦安定，懋修肇彝常；
:裕文煥景瑞，永錫世緒昌。
See also
* Confucianism
* Disciples of Confucius
* Twelve Philosophers
* Kong Family Mansion
* Temple of Confucius, Qufu
* Cemetery of Confucius
* Temple of Zengzi w:zh:曾廟, 曾廟
* Mencius's sites- Meng family mansion w:zh:孟府, 孟府, Temple of Mencius w:zh:孟廟, 孟廟, and Cemetery of Mencius w:zh:孟林, 孟林.
* Temple of Yan Hui
* Zhu Xi (朱熹) (October 18, 1130 – April 23, 1200), was a Chinese Confucian scholar philosopher and government official of Song dynasty China, who was influential in the development of Neo-Confucianism
Sources
Ancient Chinese philosophers
Chinese Confucianists
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