Who was the founder of Neo-Confucianism in Song Dynasty?

Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties is also called Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties. The founder of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties was Zhou Dunyi, a famous philosopher and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. Later generations also called Zhou Dunyi the originator of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties. Zhou Dunyi laid the foundation of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties and had an important and far-reaching influence on Neo-Confucianism in later generations.

Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties refers to a new Confucian philosophy system that integrates Taoism and Buddhism and inherits the fundamental thoughts of Confucius and Mencius. The representatives of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties are: Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Shao Yong (later called the Five Sons of the Northern Song Dynasty), Zhu and Lu Jiuyuan in the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Yangming in the Ming Dynasty and others.