The History of Zhuxi's Neo-Confucianism
Wuyi Mountains was the cradle of Zhuxi's Neo-Confucianism, and it's popularly known as "the hub of Neo-Confucianism in the South China". Zhuxi was thought as a greatest adeologist, philosopher and educator after Confucius and he himself was also the representative of Confucianism.
Zhuxi set up academies and he had lived, written and taught here for over 50 years, thus making Wuyi Mount the "center for Neo-Confucianism for three Dynasties of Song, Yuan, Ming". From Zhiyan Academy in Wufu to Wuyi Academy under the Hidden Screen Peak, Wuyi Mountains saw remains of the culture of Neo-Confucianism all over the place.
Since its formation in Chunxi Reign in Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism had been lasting over 700 years to thirty-first year of Guanxu Reign in Qing Dynasty. During his life time Zhuxi wrote a great many of poems and essays. Some of them are quite famous and influential even nowadays. Among them are "The Collection of Works By Zhuxi" and "Notes from Zhuxi ". The famous historian CaiShansi once said; "There was a Confucius in East—Zhou Dynasty, while in South-Song Dynasty there was Zhuxi. The ancient Chinese culture found the origin both in Taishan Mount and Wuyi Mount."