Ch’eng I-ch’uan
Ch’eng I-ch’uan
(Ch’eng-I, Ch’eng-cheng-shu, 1033-1107) Was younger brother of Ch’eng Ming-tao. He led an active life as a high government official and a prominent teacher. “There was no book which he did not read and he studied with absolute sincerity. With the Great Learning, the Analects, Works of Mencius and the Chung Yung (Golden Mean) as basis, he penetrated all the six (Confucian) classics.” He ranks with his brother as great Neo-Confucians. — W.T.C.