The emperors making pilgrimages and sacrifices to Mountain Taishan had made it become a “holy mountain”. Meanwhile, the mountain had also formed a spirit of genuine humanity.
It had started having had the image in the mind of people who also strengthened gradually the human objective consciousness under the enlightenment of Mountain Taishan in the time of Confucius. The thinkers, represented by Confucius and Mencius, had relationships with Mountain Taishan very different from that of emperors, dukes and princes who were eager to make a pilgrimage to the mountain in the time of Spring and Autumn. They had new points of view on understanding Mountain Taishan, the world and themselves. The famous saying, “Ascend Mountain Taishan and you will see the world dwarfed”. Is in fact their resolution of “taking the world as one's own responsibility” and their declaration of standing on the height of Mountain Taishan so as to observe society and life. Mountain Taishan had so huge and influence on Confucius that he mentioned Mountain Taishan in his “the Song of Approaching One's End” before he died:“It is ruined on Mountain Taishan! Beams and posts break! It is withered so as to break a man.” Confucius passed away seven days after he made the song.
In order to commemorate this great thinker, the stone memorial archway, named as “The Arch Marking Confucius Visit”, was built at the foot of Mountain Taishan in the Ming Dynasty. |
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