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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhu.

Zhu Xi
Chinese	朱熹
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Alternative Chinese name
Chinese	朱子
Literal meaning	"Master Zhu"
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Statue of Zhu xi at the White Deer Grotto Academy in Lushan Mountain

Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (Chinese: 朱熹, October 18, 1130 – April 23, 1200) was a Song dynasty Confucian scholar who was the leading figure of the School of Principle and the most influential rationalist Neo-Confucian in China. His contributions to Chinese philosophy including his assigning special significance to the Analects, the Mencius, the Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean (the Four Books), his emphasis on the investigation of things (gewu), and the synthesis of all fundamental Confucian concepts, formed the basis of Chinese bureaucracy and government for over 700 years. He has been called the second most influential thinker in Chinese history, after Confucius himself.