Hu Yuan (Chinese: 胡瑗, 993-1059),

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Yizhi (Chinese: 翼之). Born in Hailing, Taizhou (today's Taizhou,

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). Since he lived in the Fort Anding in the modern-day

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, he was also called "Mr. Anding" (Chinese: 安定先生, ''Ān dìng xiān sheng''). An educator from the

Northern Song Dynasty Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a ra ...

, he was considered one of the so called "Three masters of the beginning of the Song Dynasty" (宋初三先生). As an educator, he privileged the understating of the substance and function (Chinese: 體用) and literature (Chinese: 文) as the way of the sages. He was also considered one of the forerunners of

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, was a teacher of Cheng Yi, and wrote a comment on the

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Zhu Xi Zhu Xi (; ; October 18, 1130 – April 23, 1200), formerly romanized Chu Hsi, was a Chinese calligrapher, historian, philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty. Zhu was influential in the development of Neo-Confucianism. He con ...

regarded him as a relatively important Confucian of the Song Dynasty He was the ancestor of

Hu Dunfu Hu Dunfu (; 1886 – December 1, 1978) was a Chinese mathematician and pioneer in higher education. He won a Qing government scholarship to study at Cornell University, and became the first dean of Tsinghua University at the age of 25. He was th ...

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