Zhu Xi (1130-1200)

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This paper reviews the contribution of Zhu Xi to neo-Confucianism as recurring Chinese response to periods of upset or confusion. The paper discusses his texts for distribution, ideas of 'li' in relation to 'xi' as these justified a superior examination system, learned and moral officials, and all other ideals that had to do with Ancient ideals. The paper further discusses both a religious and cultural impact on the role of the scholar.

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"Zhu Xi (1130-1200) and his Influence in the Song Dynasty. Introduction Zhu Xi's commentaries on the works of Confucius and Mencius are said to have shaped China's religious and other thought, through the next several centuries. (Ching 2000) Zhi Xi and his followers gave much time to explaining the eternal forces of li, as the principle of spirit or energy and xi, of the physical world, that influenced one another. He restored Confucian ideas of a proper social order to be gone about in different ways. One sees that his neo-Confucianism was consistent with what he saw as so important in cosmology. "

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