Han nationality, whose ancestral home is Wuyuan County (now Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province), Jiangnan East Road, was born in Youxi, Nanjian Prefecture (now Sanming City, Fujian Province). Zhu Zi was a famous philosopher, thinker, educator, poet and representative of Fujian School in the Southern Song Dynasty, and he was the most outstanding master of Confucianism since Confucius and Mencius.
Zhu was born in a Confucian family, and his father Zhu Song attached great importance to Zhu's education. The legend in the History of the Song Dynasty goes like this: "Xi is young and ignorant, but he can speak. His father pointed to heaven and said,' Heaven is also heaven', and Xi said,' What is heaven?' "This legend shows that Zhu was a curious person since he was a child.
Because Zhu Song is a Confucian scholar who grew up under the education of Confucianism, his requirements for his son are naturally carried out in accordance with the goal of being a saint in Confucianism. According to the Chronicle of Zhu Zi, at the age of 65,438+00, Zhu began to "learn from sages", and he was obsessed with learning The Great University, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius every day. He himself recalled: "When I was ten years old, I read Mencius and liked saints like me." From then on, I decided to be a saint.
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Baidu encyclopedia-Zhu