Zhu Xi (朱熹), also spelled Zhongyuan Obscure, also known as Zhongxi, was a Wuyuan native of Huizhou. His father, Zhu Song (朱松), was a disciple of Yang Shi's disciple Luo Congyan, known as "Mr. Wei Zhai" by Rulin scholars.
Nanxi Academy is located at the foot of Youxi Gongshan Mountain, backed by Gongshan Mountain, facing Wenshan Mountain, originally the Yiren Zheng Yizhai Pavilion, Zhu Xi's father Zhu Song served as a lieutenant of Youxi County, after going to the official, the poor life of a friend Zheng Yizhai helped to live here to teach and teach, living a simple but happy life.
In the fourth year of Emperor Gaozong of Song's reign, at noon on the 15th day of the ninth lunar month in 1130 AD, Zhu Xi was born in the Zheng'an Daoist family (Jin Shi born in Guanshuinan, Guanbai JinZi Dafu) in Youxi City.
Shaoxing was three years old, and Zhu Xi was four years old. One day, the family was enjoying the moon in the courtyard, and his mother, Madame Zhu, told him the story of Chang'e running to the moon, saying that there were toads on the moon, changing changing by Chang'e, and jade rabbits, who were taking medicine all year round. His father pointed to the heavens and said to him, "That's heaven, that's the moon." "
As for Zhu Xi, he didn't want to sleep for a long time, and he couldn't imagine that his taciturn son suddenly came up with a sentence: "What is above the heavens?" The father was surprised by a question. I also asked why the sun is so hot, why is the moon so cool, and what is the sun and moon going up again? Zhu Song was greatly surprised to hear this. Later, Zhu Song wrote in the poem "Mid-Autumn Moon Appreciation": "... Stop the cup to play the rut, the river is quiet. Idiots also do not sleep, bitterly looking for frogs and rabbits to see. "
This is the allusion to the "Zhu Zi Asking Heaven" recorded in the history books. This child's question about "Heavenly Reason" later became a philosophical proposition that Zhu Xi painstakingly explored all his life.
Six years later, Zhu Xi was seven years old. Because of the cultural influence of his father's generation, he can still understand the five elements and gossip. Once, he and the children in the township played on the beach in front of Nanxi Academy, some stacking sand houses, some fighting sand. And Zhu Xi painted on the beach, and everyone saw that Zhu Xi was only painting a bagua picture. Therefore, it left a good story of Zhu Xi sitting on the sand and painting a gua. In order to commemorate this incident, later generations called this beach "Painting Gua Zhou".
In the second half of the seventh year of zhu xi, he moved with his father from Youxi to Jianzhou (now Jian'ou) to live temporarily, which was the seat of the palace of the Southern Song Dynasty). Legend has it that Zhu Xi also often painted gossip on the beach in front of Jian'ou Shuinan to entertain himself. Later generations also erected a monument on the south beach of Jian'oushui, which reads "Zhu Wengong sits on the sand and paints the gua place", and built a pavilion to commemorate it. (According to expert research, half an acre of square pond and painting Guazhou are in Youxi.) The rest are fabricated).
Ten years later, Zhu Xi was 11 years old. Zhu Song, who was then the Imperial Court's Sipin Chengyi Lang, was ostracized by Qin Juniper's henchmen because of his opposition to traitorous countries and seeking peace, and was demoted from Zhirao Prefecture, so he resigned his official post and returned to the south, and his family officially came to Jian'ou, living in the Huanxi Jingshe in the south of Jian'ou City, and from then on concentrated on educating his children at home.