Zhu, also known as Zhong Hui, was called Huian, later called Huiweng, and later called Zhu Wengong. Born in Youxi, Nanjian County. He was a famous Neo-Confucianism, thinker, philosopher, educator and poet in Song Dynasty.
The representative of Fujian School, a master of Confucianism, was called Zhu Xi by the Buddha. Zhu is the only person who is not a disciple handed down by Confucius, but likes to visit the Confucius Temple. He ranks among the twelve philosophers in Dacheng Hall and is worshipped by Confucianism.
Zhu is a student, a disciple of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, and is also known as the school with Cheng Yi. Zhu's Neo-Confucianism had a great influence on the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and became the official philosophy of the three generations. He is another person after Confucius in the educational history of China.
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Zhu is a master of philosophy and an inheritor and innovator of Confucianism in Song Dynasty. His ideological system occupies an important position in the political, ideological and cultural fields of later generations and has far-reaching influence.
Emperor Kangxi said that Zhu was an academic master. This kind of learning has been lost for thousands of years, and some rules have been set for hundreds of millions of years. Zhu's theory of "knowing from things" has played an important role in promoting the development of Wang Yangming's mind.
In order to test the theory of governor, Wang Yangming sat in the academy for seven consecutive days and watched bamboo. He wanted to experience the truth of learning bamboo, couldn't sleep at night, focused on observing bamboo and thinking about problems, and finally fell ill.
But I didn't realize the truth of bamboo either. Wang Yangming's bamboo case made him doubt Zhu's case knowledge and have a new understanding of it.
The difference in their understanding of things is that Zhu tends to explore external things rationally, while Wang Yangming points to internal subjective experience.
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