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Nanping of Fujian to host 3rd China Zhuzi Cultural Festival

Updated: 2010-01-12

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2010 is the year of the 880th anniversary birthday of the ancient Chinese renowned thinker, philosopher and educator Zhu Xi. During May to November in 2010, Nanping City of Fujian will host a series of activities titled "3rd China (Wuyi Mountain) Zhuzi Cultural Festival" to commemorate Zhu Xi.

The commemorative activities will include a groundbreaking ceremony of Zhuzi School, forum, and Cross-Strait exchanging.

Zhu Xi

Zhū Xī was a Song Dynasty (960-1279) Confucian scholar who became the leading figure of the School of Principle and the most influential rationalist Neo-Confucian in China. His contribution to Chinese philosophy included his assigning special significance to the Analects of Confucius, the Mencius, the Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean (the Four Books), his emphasis on the investigation of things (gewu), and the synthesis of all fundamental Confucian concepts.

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