Mencius paved a new path for moral building during the mid Warring States period when the fuction of building of Rites(li,礼) and Music(yue,乐) was fading away,and he maintained that cultivation stemmed from our original mind.In order to encourage moral confidence of normal people,Mencius declaimed that human nature is kind.However,Mencius referred to the four predispositions of our mind/heart as the four 'sprouts' or 'beginnings' of goodness.According to the two theories mentioned above we should expand the ...