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Death of Zhu Xi

Type Event Region China Time 1200

In 1200 Zhu Xi, the great synthesizer of Southern Song Neo-Confucianism, died of illness at Kaoting in Jianyang, Fujian, aged seventy;…

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  1. 1200Kaoting, Jianyang · FujianZhu Xi died of illness at his residence in Kaoting, Jianyang; his disciples mourned, and his scholarly works and teaching tradition were carried on by them, marking the end of a generation of Southern Song Neo-Confucian masters.
  2. 1200Fujian · FujianThough still in the aftermath of the Qingyuan party ban, Zhu Xi's classical studies and Neo-Confucian system spread through his disciples and gradually became a major source of the official philosophy of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing.

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