〞Doubt Mong,〞 written by Sima Guang in the Northern Song Dynasty, was definitely the masterpiece of non-Mong scholars doubting Mencius thoughts in the Song Dynasty. It was widely discussed in the Southern Song Dynasty. Even though Hu Hong's 〞Explaining Doubt Mong〞 was in it, it was mostly ignored by predecessors. In scrutinizing rational thinking directions of Sima Guang and Hu Hong, the endorsing or the refutation for Mencius thoughts were both from the effects of different kinds of mind awareness. Sima Guang thought that mind needed to be controlled and goodness could be achieved only through the accumulation of external rites and sage education. As a result, believing in one's own mind was not suggested. Instead, courtesy, respecting monarch, and regarding history were necessary. Hu Hong inherited Mencius's thought system, regarding mind homologous, dedication and intellectuality, and contemporary courtesy, believing that people established the standard of moral judgment based on themselves and thus advance and retreat could comply with doctrine of the mean. They had their own era considerations and basis of their own ideas. Sima Guang lived in a complex political situation of the Northern Song Dynasty and committed himself to the maintenance of the sovereignty of the emperors due to the requirement of the era. His doubts for the arrogance of the Political Reform of Wang Anshi performed conservatism and retro on the political attitudes, which was an important background of how people understood the minds. Hu Hong lived in the Southern Song Dynasty, experiencing reform failure, reconstruction and damage of the system, and thus he made deeper reflection for the dilemma of the demise of the North Song Dynasty. He doubted what led to the basis and context behind the system. Herein the profound questioning forced Confucians in the Southern Song Dynasty gradually faced the fundamental of inner moral disposition and then the major problems of Neo-Confucianism were carried out