Lianxi, the name of a small river in Daoxian County, Hunan Province. Zhou Dunyi was born in Daozhou (now Daoxian County, Hunan Province) in the Northern Song Dynasty in the first year of Tianbao Tianxi (A.D. 10 17) and lived in Lianxi. In his later years, Zhou Dunyi moved to the foot of Lotus Peak in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi Province. There is a stream in front of the peak. He was called Mr. Lianxi because he took his hometown Lianxi as the name of water and thought himself a proper name.
Zhou Dunyi later became an official in other places. He saw a stream similar to Lianxi in his hometown and named it. In addition to Lianxi in Jiujiang, there is another stream in Peng 'an County, Sichuan Province, which was named Lianxi by Zhou Dunyi, who was appointed as the judge of Hezhou at that time.
Jiujiang lianxi academy
Jiujiang Lianxi Academy was originally named Lianxi Bookstore, also known as Lianxi Temple. In the sixth year of Song Jiahu (106 1), Zhou Dunyi "moved Dr. Guo Zi, and sentenced him to Ganzhou (now Ganzhou City), called Jiangzhou, and loved Lushan Mountain, because there was a study under his feet." There is a stream in front of the main hall, which originates from Lotus Peak, is clean and cold, and joins the Minjiang River. My husband enjoyed it very much, so he named it Suixi. "Lianxi was originally the name of Zhou Dunyi's hometown. Zhou Dunyi is far away from his hometown and has been an official in other places for a long time. On the one hand, he is too poor to go home because of his incorruptibility. On the other hand, he loves the beauty of Lushan Mountain and got married here, so he named it "Lianxi Bookstore", which means that overseas Chinese live here and the countryside is in sight. Academies have been built over the ages, and their addresses have changed several times, and their titles have also changed.
Lianxi Academy occupies an important position in the history of Chinese academy, education and philosophy, and occupies a prominent position in the core, soul and origin that other academies can't match in the history of Neo-Confucianism. Historically, there have been an endless stream of people studying, researching, visiting and searching in Jiujiang Lianxi Academy. Many celebrities, such as Huang Tingjian, Su Shi, "Er Cheng", Zhu, etc., are stationed here. Worship and esteem by later Neo-Confucianists.