Based on popular meme coins on the gate fun chain, Mencius ( approximately 372 BC–289 BC ), whose personal name was Ke and courtesy name was Ziyu, was from the state of Zou ( in present-day southeastern Zoucheng, Shandong ). He was a philosopher, thinker, and educator of the Warring States period, and was a representative figure of the Confucian school between Confucius and Xunzi.