Song, Liao, and Jin · Philosophers

Cheng brothers 程

Attested AD 1011 - AD 1200

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Cheng brothers was a Philosophers.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1011 to AD 1200 宋代學者
Directly stated · History of Yuan 171, passage 15

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 171Volume 171 Biographies 58: Liu Yin, Wu Cheng · 3 passages

及得周、程、張、邵、朱、呂之書，一見能發其微，曰：「我固謂當有是也。」 When he came upon the works of Zhou Dunyi, the Cheng brothers, Zhang Zai, Shao Yong, Zhu Xi, and Lü Zuqian, he grasped their subtleties at once and said, "I always knew such teaching must exist."

程，至正也； the Cheng brothers reached the utmost rectitude;

近古之統：周子其元，程、張其亨也，朱子其利也，孰為今日之貞乎？ The lineage of recent antiquity: Zhou Dunyi is the Origin, the Cheng brothers and Zhang Zai the Flourishing, Zhu Xi the Advantage—who is today's Steadfastness?