Material: Wood

Height: 242 cm

Width: 104 cm

Pedestal

Height: 65 cm

Width: 102 cm

Sole

Height: 20 cm

Length: 105 cm

The statue of Mencius was made in XVIII century art style. The statue has been put in Văn Miếu since 1960

The statue, facing to the East, wearing mandarin’s bonnet decorated cloud and two dragons franking to the sun, wearing large-sleeved ceremonial robe decorated with clouds, wearing the mandarin’s shoes with decoration on top. Two hands of his statue holding two rolls of letters above the chest.

Mencius (372-289 BC), alias Zidi , is also called Menzi, Mencius traveled from state to state preaching the theory of Goodness, taking kindeness and righteousness as the standards to differentiate the Royal way and dictatorial way in the ruler’s way of governance, dignifying social codes of virtue. The later Confucian scholars honoured him as A Thanh (The second Saint)