Research on Chronicles of Zhu Xi's Letters(Revised Edition)

Zhu Xi matured at a very early age just as what Wang Maohong has described in his work," Chronicle of Zhu Xi" :" the diction features of Zhu Xi at the age of 41 was not different from that of him at the age of 65." Mao Zi added that what Zhu Xi said at the age of 39 as "one should respect the natural laws governing the world and seek the truth for his whole life." Was similar to the words he said later in his life." In other words, Zhu Xi has gained a wide range of knowledge since he was young. The two wings of philosophy (which refer to Neo-Confucianism and the Philosophy of the Mind) were just reflection of Doctrine of Mean in the field of philosophy. However, Zhu said that "when I write notes on The Analects of Confucius and Book of Mencius, I read through every word carefully, lest I may miss its meaning. Even when there days before he's approaching his end, he had been writing notes on "The Great Learning" and "The Songs of Chu". This is the philosophical spirit of Zhu Xi, the so-called "Small moralities is like streams converging to river while great virtues nurture the whole earth."