How Meng Mu educated her son? Mengzi is an important historical Chinese figure. He was a very wise man and achieved many things, but did you know he would have achieved nothing if it wasn't for his mother--Meng Mu? When Mengzi was little he lived close to the cemetery, everyday he heard people crying and wailing. Then one day, as his mother Meng Mu was sewing, she heard a wailing and crying voice like Mengzi's voice! She looked out of the window and there was Mengzi, he had gathered some dirt and shaped it into a tombstone! His mother realized that they couldn't live close to the cemetery anymore.So they moved next to the market. Altough they moved Meng Mu was still dissatisfied. Why? Because one day, she saw Mengzi bargaining with the child next door like the people in the market! She heard Mengzi say to the child next door, “I'll trade my vegetables for your stone sword!” “No way, why would I ever do that?!”, exclaimed the other child. ”Hmph! My vegetables are much better than your swords! They don't stab people!” was Mengzi's sharp reply. “Oh dear,” Thought Meng Mu, he speaks like the people in the market!” Then she thought, I must move us to live next to the school, that way he can act like a scholar! After they moved, Meng Mu noticed that her son started to act like a scholar: Mengzi bowed and spoke politly whenever he talked to her, and even though he didn't know how to read yet, he liked to take a book and talk like a scholar. When Mengzi was old enough to start school, he worked hard to please his mother, but one day he came home a few minutes after school. “Why did you come home so early?”, asked Meng Mu. Since Meng Mu was nice to Mengzi and never scolded him, Mengzi spoke the truth: he said, “It was such a sunny day that I just couldn't stay in class, I ran outside and caught birds.”, he showed Meng Mu the birds. Meng Mu was so angry that she ripped the beautiful fabric she was sewing in half! Mengzi was surprised, he asked, “Mother, why did you rip such a beautiful fabric in half?”. Meng Mu said, “I could have sold this fabic for a good price, but now that I have cut this fabric in half, I can not sell it anymore. Thing that I had done is wasted. It is the same thing for studying, everything that you have done will be wasted.” Mengzi had learned his lesson and he sweared never to leave school early except under special circumstances.Since he followed his promise, Mengzi has become one of the most important hisorical Chinese figures.