Zhang Zai (1020-107765438+February 6th), with a thick word, was called Mr. Hengqu. His ancestral home was Daliang (now Kaifeng, Henan), and later he moved to Fengxiang and Hengqu Town, Yan County. He moved to Chang 'an again and became a Chang 'an native. One of the thinkers, educators and founders of Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Jiashou Jinshi signed the judge's official duties in Weizhou, assisting the military commander Cai Ting in planning the border defense. In the second year of Xining (1069), it was a book of Chongwen Academy; The following year, due to illness at home, reading and giving lectures; In the tenth year of Xining (1077), Tongzhi Taichang Hospital returned to illness. In the tenth year of Xining in Song Shenzong (1077), Zhang Zai died in Lintong at the age of 58. He was honored as a saint, Zhang Zi, and was the 38th in the west of Confucius Temple.

Zhang zai's achievements

Guan Xue is an important school of Confucianism founded by Zhang Zai, with the disciples and inheritors of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty as the main body, and its teaching and academic exchanges are based on Guanzhong. It is as famous as Luo Xue in Song Dynasty, Zhou Dunyi's Luo Xue, Wang Anshi's and Zhu's, which together constitute the mainstream of Confucianism in Song Dynasty.

Zhang Zai believes that if people are born in the world, they should respect God's will, establish heaven, stand on the ground, establish people, be sincere, upright, have self-esteem, be knowledgeable, be reasonable, cultivate one's morality, keep a house in order, rule the country and level the world, and strive to reach the realm of sages. Feng Youlan, a contemporary philosopher, summed up the four sentences of Hengqu, which embodies Guan Xue's main thought: "Make a heart for heaven and earth, make a life for the people, link the past with the future, and make the world peaceful".