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Supreme Synthesizer of Han Confucianism and Founder of the Zheng School of Classics
A thatched pavilion open on three sides stands among tall bamboo; one person sits with their back turned at the veranda rail beside a zither and a stack of bamboo slips, while a stone path runs to a calm pond reflecting clouds and distant hills.
Also known as Zheng Kangcheng · Kangcheng · Zhengxue Zongshi · Jingxue Jidachengzhe
The foremost classicist of imperial China whose authoritative syntheses of the New and Old Text traditions ('Zheng Learning') defined Confucian orthodoxy for centuries.
HanThe Book of the Later Han says Zheng Xuan went west through the pass and, by way of Lu Zhi, studied under Ma Rong of Fufeng, who had over four hundred pupils. For three years he could not see Ma Rong, who had senior pupils teach him. Later the students following him numbered in the hundreds or thousands, and pupils such as Zhao Shang of Henei came from far away, thousands in all.
