Chen Baisha (
Cantonese Jyutping: Chan4 baak6 saa1; Chinese traditional: 陳白沙/陳獻章)(1428–1500) is one of
China
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's well-known
Cantonese Confucian scholars, poets, and calligraphers, during the
Ming dynasty. He was born in
Xinhui and was considered to be the first scholar to coming out from Xinhui and
Guangdong. As early as 1464, when Chen was teaching in
Baisha, Guangdong, his scholarship was already highly regarded. In 1466, at the age of thirty-nine, Chen travelled to
Beijing and re-entered the National Academy. He was praised by Xing Rang and started a new trend of teaching. When Chen Baisha died in 1500, left behind a distinguished line of students, many of whom by then were holding high office. Among them, Liang Chu and
Zhan Ruoshui
Zhan Ruoshui (, 1466–1560), was a Chinese philosopher, educator and a Confucian scholar.
Biography
Zhan was born in Zengcheng, Guangdong. He was appointed the president of Nanjing Guozijian (南京國子監, the Imperial Nanjing University) in ...
were senior officials, and Huang Zuo, besides being a senior official.
Emperor and ancestor: state and lineage in South China
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Chinese Confucianists
Cantonese philosophers
Ming dynasty scholars
1428 births
1500 deaths
People from Xinhui District
Poets from Guangdong
Writers from Jiangmen
Educators from Guangdong