wherever you celebrate them! Of the hundreds of great Chinese philosophers, poets, novelists, and statesmen whose works have been outstanding, both Mencius and Hsun Tzu choose to follow Confucius. Mencius’s states that humans were inherently good and, with the proper training, could become perfect, but Hsun Tzu did not share the same belief as Mencius’s, that human nature is inherently good, even divine. Instead, Hsun Tzu believed that strict discipline could make good human beings, despite their natural
