Zhu Xi 朱熹
scholar · Song China · 1130–1200
The Song scholar who brought Neo-Confucianism together into a system.
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later 12th century
A square pond of half an acre opens like a mirror, and sky light and cloud shadows wander there together. I ask how it can be so clear: because living water comes to it from the source.
半畝方塘一鑑開，天光雲影共徘徊。
問渠那得清如許，爲有源頭活水來。"Thoughts on Reading," the first poem, in the Complete Song Poems
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