For China, since ancient times, we have seen a lot of famous texts and schools, if you talk about our most classic Chinese knowledge is Confucianism. For Confucianism, after Kong, there have been countless sages who have pursued the ingenuity of Confucianism, and this school has been continuously improving in the development of thousands of years, and there have been new interpretations in the new stage. When it developed into the Song Dynasty, Confucianism also appeared several scholars, one of whom had to be mentioned was Zhu Xi.
During the Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi was undoubtedly a confucian scholar recognized by the world, and he spent his life studying the learning of Confucius, so in his time, Confucianism also had a new definition, and at the same time had a new name - Cheng Zhu Lixue. If anyone wants to study Confucianism thoroughly, then Zhu Xi's articles must be read, and from here we can see Zhu Xi's creation in Confucianism.
In education, Zhu Xi also emphasized that there is no class in teaching, and he often opened some schools to teach the truth of Confucianism. Almost every time Zhu Xi gave a lecture, many people would come to listen to the lecture. Among them are Zhu Xi's own students, as well as local residents and people from all walks of life in society. With so many people getting together, there's always something funny going on.
For example, once Zhu Xi taught everyone the knowledge of Confucianism as usual, and he taught the knowledge in a gentle and elegant way on the stage, and everyone listened very carefully. But in the course of the lecture, a beautiful young woman walked through the class carrying a bamboo basket and watched from the sidelines. The woman's appearance made many people who listened to the lecture focus on her, and Zhu Xi was quite angry about it, but he couldn't bear to get angry.
He summoned the woman, pointed at her and asked the students in the audience, "Does anyone know what this girl is going to do?" Someone in the audience soon said, "This girl is carrying a bamboo basket, she must be going to buy something." Zhu Xi nodded and asked, "Then why is it said that this woman is going to buy things instead of buying north and south?" "
As soon as this question came out, everyone was stunned, did not know how to answer, and vaguely felt that the master was probably angry. Sure enough, Zhu Xi educated them and let them use their hearts. The students were all ashamed to hear this, when a young child's voice came out: "Master, I know why!" Zhu Xi came to be interested and asked the child to answer, and the child replied: "The east is wood, the west is gold, the south is fire, and the north is water, and if you carry a bamboo basket, then you must only be able to hold wood gold, so you buy things, not buy north and south." Zhu Xi was very satisfied after hearing this, and at the same time he was even more disappointed in everyone, the truth that ten-year-old children knew, but others did not understand.
Although some of zhu xi's views in his learning are still somewhat controversial to this day, we can see the rigor of his teaching from this interesting story. Whether it is to deal with teaching or to treat learning, Zhu Xi's requirements are very high, he is also very responsible for the students, he is a serious person, so he is not allowed to have distractions in the classroom. It can be seen that Zhu Xi is a Confucian master and a good teacher. Now you know why you don't mean to buy north and south for buying things, and after reading it, do you now understand it?