About this article
Published Online: Nov 11, 2025
Received: Jun 19, 2025
Accepted: Oct 01, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns-2025-1137
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© 2025 Liang Zhang
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The result of the text theme of mencius
| Theme | Key words |
|---|---|
| Topic1 | Things, minister, phase, Lord, benefit, listen, tell, dynasty, long, Chu, quality, Liang Hui Wang, Zi Gong, Tong, original, Hujie, Tian, Shu several |
| Topic2 | Evil, rites, good, Shi, an, heart, repair, Tang Wu, thief, things, five tastes, scholastic officials, less, class, parents, less is MAO, labor, wives and concubines; |
| Topic3 | Son, king, line, death, Wen, vassal, life, difficult, auxiliary, system, year, vegetation, all things, county, crown, field hunting, Jin, sparse |
| Topic4 | Tao, Qi, Confucius, De, five, bereavement, position, love, law, retreat, hundred, Yanyuan, thick, gatekeeper, Mencius, temple, Sheng, thinking; |
| Topic5 | Death, Yin, courtesy, shun, into, right, number, worry, faith, loyalty, Lin, insult, dimension, holy king, duty, West, case, end. |
| Topic6 | People, father, people, degree, friends, Zhuanxin for a moment, distinguished, learned, clothes, ghosts, Lu Ai Gong, state, brother, Bo, official, minister, benevolence, Tao; |
| Topic7 | Government, power, resentment, victory, benevolence, justice, beauty, long, pro-emperor, Sun and moon, thin, like, severe, King Xuan of Qi, sin, God, brother, court; |
| Topic8 | Ren, villain, know, Zi Lu, Wei, than gan, state, Ran have, Yong, valley, right, shallow, five Bo, soup, Kong, Shun, Zhen, law; |
| Topic9 | Ming, chaos, gentleman, strong, reason, policy, emotion, Bo, knowledge, sorrow, laughter, sorrow, joy, harmony, yong, silk bamboo, drum, Yu sheng; |
| Topic10 | Country, sex, music, far, teacher, house, fire, disease, respect, official, book, poetry, eyes, Confucianism, margin, sorrow, beans, noble and cheap; |
| Topic11 | Live, good, governance, Chen, vulgar, clothing, decoration, product, keep, food, straight, soil, anti, fu, think, female, gentle, insult; |
| Topic12 | The world, Zhi, public, Jing, filial piety, fear, Fang, people, officials, Tong, dirt, road, Qin, old, material, imperial, agriculture, honor and shame; |
| Topic13 | People, righteousness, Jun, big, day, noble, learn, world, section, teach, different, will, too, township, contrary, foolish, brave, loyal; |
Topics to extract keyword results
| Theme | Key words |
|---|---|
| Topic1 | Ji, Yan, I, Ju, force, De, far, straight, yong, long, Wei, Zi, Se, female, confession, phase, Zuo, sage |
| Topic2 | Gentleman, state, victory, people, righteousness, kin, Qi, son, body, high, Yan, big, benevolence, private, after, loss, first, thief |
| Topic3 | Confucius, body, gentleman, from, speech, filial piety, righteousness, people, world, king, heaven, teaching, home, ancient, rest, five, affinity, De |
| Topic4 | Wang, Mencius, people, son, line, see, state, Shun, Wen, Confucius, Yao, Ju, Zhi, Jun, government, the world, governance, pro |
| Topic5 | Action, peace, evil, heaven, seeing, standing, things, good, self, Zhi, foot, Lord, over, teacher, contention, goodness, beauty, Confucianism |
| Topic6 | World, different, phase, reality, Cheng, name, King, listen, right, please, Ming, Yu, the world, Jun, Shun, Gong, sin, period |
| Topic7 | Desire, life, evil, profit, Ming, rites and righteousness, today, righteousness, sex, easy, noble, nourishing, poetry, death, Wen, heart, evil |
| Topic8 | Many, life, Xian, wish, instrument, right, false, to err, son, out, Xi, rich, do, language, ancient, father, flow, stand |
| Topic9 | Jun, Shi, good, receive, the world, long, friends, country, Xian, respect, foreign, sex, big, Yu, princes, brother, water, worry |
| Topic10 | Gentleman, Confucius, line, smell, see, Ren, Zi Gong, state, knowledge, rites, affairs, learning, master, Jun, government, State, De, Xian |
| Topic11 | World, people, king, music, things, country, ceremony, king, chaos, government, good, strong, scholar, Gong, danger, and, minister, heavy |
| Topic12 | Fa, governance, saying, Tong, system, reason, name, Cheng, heaven, chaos, discrimination, right, matter, simultaneity, Yu, mind, punishment, observation |
| Topic13 | Tao, Mencius, I, benevolence, today, big, desire, heart, knowledge, will, music, rites, the world, people, seeking, small, living, raising |
