[Listen to my father tell the story of Zhu Xi]

Grandpa was a little unconvinced and asked me, "Can you tell me what is called Miao Fengfeng is non-negotiable?" ”

Without hesitation, I said, "The innate thing is wrong." ”

The father waved his hand and said, "You don't come to this set, let me learn the way of the sages with my heart!" ”

Grandpa stuck out his tongue at me.

When I first came to Beijing, my grandfather and father taught me, and I had plenty of time to play, and one day, I saw my father thoughtful, looking at the sky in a daze, and I sat quietly next to him to watch him.

After a while, he spotted me and said, "Boan is here." ”

I asked, "Father, what are you thinking?" ”

My father smiled and said, "I'm thinking about my idol in life." ”

I couldn't help but ask, "Who is your idol?" ”

My father was talking about Master Zhu and told me about Zhu Xi's life.

Zhu Xi, the character Yuan Xuan, the number of Xuan An, the late name of the obscurity, the text of the text, the world known as Zhu Wengong.

He is the only one who is not a disciple of Confucius and worships the Confucian Temple, and is ranked among the twelve philosophers of the Dacheng Temple. He is the personal disciple of Li Tong, the third disciple of Mr. Ercheng, and served as the prefect of Jiangxi Nankang, Fujian Zhangzhou, and the governor of eastern Zhejiang. The official worships Huanzhang Pavilion and serves as a lecturer, and once lectured for Song Ningzong.

He wrote Hongfeng throughout his life, including "Notes on the Collection of Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books", "Explanation of the Diagram of Taiji", "Zhou Yi Reader", etc., and his descendants compiled "Zhuzi Daquan", "Zhuzi Collection of Words", etc., among which the "Notes on the Collection of Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books" became the standard of the textbook and the imperial examination.

When my father talked about Zhu Zi, he said three things, one was envy, the second was admiration, and the third was admiration.

The father said, envying Zhu Zi. The main time of his life was focused on meditation, writing, and lecturing, the three wonderful things of life, the most important of which was the six-year period of writing in the cold spring, especially when he founded the Wuyi Monastery in Wuyi Mountain. When I saw my father's envious expression, in addition to admiring the way of the sage of Old Master Zhu, I also secretly said to myself that I must go to Wuyi Mountain to meditate when I have the opportunity.

In addition, Zhu Zi is commendable for his great contribution to Confucianism, which is manifested in two points:

First, the "Four Books" was finally determined by him, and thus formed a vast Confucian work, which no one in Confucianism can match.

The second is the prosperity of the college. In the third year of Chunxi, Zhu Zizhi of the Southern Kangjun supervised the people to persuade agriculture, so he repaired the ancient Bailudong Academy, and the "Canons of the Bailudong Academy" was one of the earliest educational rules and regulations in the history of Chinese education, and made clear expositions and detailed provisions on the purpose of education, training programs, learning procedures and the principles of self-cultivation and self-governance.

Later, he presided over Yuelu Academy, the first academy in the world, and rebuilt and expanded Yuelu Academy. In addition, Zhu Ziwen has made a move and is well-known all over the world, and there is a person in the middle of this, who is a generation of great Confucian Lu Zuqian.

In the second year of Chunxi, Lu Zuqian came to visit Zhu Xi, and met in the Hanquan Monastery for a month and a half, and a Confucian masterpiece "Recent Reflections" came out, which was known as "the meeting of the cold spring." ”

Subsequently, under the tandem of Lu Zuqian, Zhu Zi successively went to the Goose Lake Academy with a generation of Confucian masters Lu Jiuyuan and Lu Jiuling brothers, and had a ten-day debate, which had a far-reaching impact.

At this time, the leader of Confucianism was not Zhu Zi, but Zhang Yan of Sichuan, and the representatives of the Huxiang school at that time were Hu Anguo and his son, so it can be said that the Hunan school was the most important in the Confucianism at that time.

Since everyone belongs to the school of science, the debate between Zhu Zi and the Huxiang school is still relatively friendly, and the debate between Zhu Zi and Chen Liang on Wang Bazhixue is also very classic.

Zhu Zi also made his father admire the merits of political benevolence: from the twenty-third year of Shaoxing, Zhu Xi to Tong'an, with his "courtesy, thick customs, impeachment of officials and traitors, compassion for the people" of governing the county to manage the county and city, rectify the county school, and advocate the construction of "teaching and thinking hall".

In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing, Song Xiaozong ascended the throne, and Zhu Ziying issued an edict to oppose and advocate for peace, and elaborated on the opinions of the lecture on reasoning, the restoration of the plan, and the revision of Ren Xian.

In the first year of Longxing, Zhu Ziying should enter the vertical arch hall and play three notes to Xiaozong.

In the seventh year of the main road, in order to fundamentally solve the livelihood problem of the people in the disaster year, he established the "Shecang" in Wufu.

In the sixth year of Chunxi, Zhu Zi was appointed to supervise the Nankang Army to persuade agriculture, and it coincided with a great drought that year, and after he arrived, he began to build a new water conservancy, fight disasters and relieve famines, and played the beggar (juān) to exempt Xingzi County from taxes, so that the victims could live.

And what makes my father particularly admired is Zhu Zi's integrity and determination, Chunxi eight years, coinciding with the great famine in eastern Zhejiang, because of his good way to save the famine in the Nankang army, Prime Minister Wang Huai recommended Zhu Zi for disaster relief, and promoted Changping tea and salt in eastern Zhejiang. In order to solve the difficulties of the victims, Zhu Zi quickly adopted several effective measures. During this period, he discovered the illegal facts of Tang Zhongyou, the governor of Qiantai Prefecture, and also learned that Tang Zhongyou and Wang Huai, the prime minister who recommended him, were in-laws, and at the same time mastered the fact that Wang Huai and Tang Zhongyou colluded and colluded. He did not hesitate for a moment, and went to the petition for impeachment six times, so he offended Wang Huai.

Therefore, Zhu Zi only served in eastern Zhejiang for nine months before leaving his post and returning home. However, under pressure, Wang Huai had to remove Tang Zhongyou from his post as a criminal officer in Jiangxi.

It can be said that in the process of impeaching Tang Zhongyou, Zhu Zi showed high ethics and integrity.

In addition, in the sixteenth year of Chunxi, Zhu Zi went to Zhangzhou at the age of 61, and his actions at this time were mainly reflected in the formal circles, the exemption from arbitrary endowments, the customs of Dun, the spread of Confucianism, and the impeachment of traitors, but they were not implemented because the formal circles greatly damaged the interests of those in real power.

In the fifth year of Shaoxi, Hunan Yaomin Pu Laiya rioted, shaking the government and the opposition, Zhu Zi was ordered to be in danger, Zhitan Prefecture, Jinghu South Road to pacify, he arrived with his benevolence to take care of the aftermath of the gentle policy, surrendered Pu Laiya, and pleaded with Song Ningzong, begging for "no loss of faith" in Yaomin.

Speaking of this, my father said two words, one is straight, and the other is benevolence.

He said that Mencius said: "I am good at my heroic spirit, which is straight and harmless." I was very impressed by the fact that I should not think too much about the stakes and go straight.

In addition, we must be benevolent, "the benevolent are invincible". I don't understand, should I be kind to my enemies? The father said firmly, "Yes." "But I'm a little unimpressed.

What my father admired the most was that Zhu Zi was in the fifth year of Shaoxi's reign, in addition to the Huanzhang Pavilion to be a system and a waiter, he was edicted to lecture on the "University", repeatedly emphasizing the Eight Guidelines, hoping to limit the abuse of monarchical power through Kuang Zheng Junde, which caused the dissatisfaction of Song Ningzong and the ruling Han 侂 (tuō) 冑 (zhòu).

Therefore, on the 46th day of the dynasty, he was dismissed from the post of waiting for the system and serving by Song Ningzong.