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An Hyang

Scholar who brought Zhu Xi’s writings from Yuan and first introduced Neo-Confucianism to Goryeo

He copied the works of Zhu Xi in Yuan and brought back portraits of Confucius and Zhu Xi, introducing Neo-Confucianism to Goryeo for the first time. When the national academy declined, he raised the Seomhakjeon scholarship fund to revive Confucian education. Later Baek I-jeong studied Neo-Confucianism in Yuan and passed it on to Yi Je-hyeon and others. Under the Joseon king Jungjong, Ju Se-bung founded Baegundong Seowon in his honour.

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    1290Arrival of Neo-Confucianismleader

    Under King Chungnyeol, An Hyang brought Neo-Confucianism from the Yuan; through Yi Je-hyeon and Yi Saek it became the creed of new scholar-officials such as Jeong Mong-ju and Jeong Do-jeon.

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  • Baek I-jeong1247 – 1323

    Scholar who studied Neo-Confucianism in Yuan while attending King Chungseon and taught it to Yi Je-hyeon and others

  • Yi Je-hyeon1287 – 1367

    Neo-Confucian scholar who studied with Yuan scholars at the Mangwondang and wrote the Saryak and Yeogong paeseol

  • Yi Saek1328 – 1396

    Late Goryeo Neo-Confucian who, as head of the Seonggyungwan under King Gongmin, trained Jeong Mong-ju and Jeong Do-jeon

  • King Chungseon1275 – 1325

    Twenty-sixth king of Goryeo, who founded the Mangwondang library in Dadu where Goryeo and Yuan scholars met

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  • Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500

    The age when the civil-minded Song bought peace from Liao, Western Xia and Jin while the lower Yangtze boomed and Neo-Confucianism took shape, and the Ming, having driven out the Yuan, rebuilt the East Asian order through imperial autocracy, the sea ban and tribute — as Japan passed through the Kamakura and Muromachi warrior governments into the Warring States era, and Korea from Goryeo to Joseon