This paper takes the Analects as example to analyze the process of metaphorical meaning constructions, within the framework of Mental Space Theory (Fauconnier, 1994, 1997; Fauconnier & Turner, 2002). Sentences in the Analects are very short but full of philosophy. It has been shown in the paper that background knowledge and contextual meaning will help readers comprehend the implication conveyed by the sentences. To account for how metaphorical meanings are interpreted in the Analects, we set up input spaces and find out the general features shared by the input spaces to figure out the blending meaning from the context and background knowledge. The process of how metaphorical meanings are constructed in this paper will help the readers to comprehend Analects more efficiently.