What schools of Neo-Confucianism were there in Song Dynasty? Which school was dominant in the Song Dynasty?

Neo-Confucianism, which is based on Confucianism and absorbs Buddhism and Taoism, is the main philosophical thought of the Song Dynasty. Zhu is a master of the development of science of philosophy. He inherited the thoughts of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, the Northern Song Neo-Confucianists, and further improved and developed the objective idealistic Neo-Confucianism system, which was later called Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism. Its core content is: "reason" is the origin of all things in the universe, and it is the first; "Qi" is the substance that constitutes all things in the universe, and it is secondary. He put "righteousness" and "human desire" in opposition, thinking that human desire is the root of all evil, so he put forward "preserving righteousness and destroying human desire"

This is actually defending the feudal hierarchical order. In the mid-Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming opposed Zhu's view that mind and reason are two different things, and founded a subjective idealism theory-mind learning, which is opposite to Zhu. The evolution of Neo-Confucianism from objective idealism to subjective idealism shows that it has gone to extremes.

Zhu, also known as Zhong Hui, was called Huian, later called Huiweng, and later called Zhu Wengong. Originally from Wuyuan County, Huizhou Prefecture, Jiangnan East Road (now Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province), he was born in Youxi, Nanjian Prefecture (now Youxi County, Fujian Province). Famous Neo-Confucianist, thinker, philosopher, educator, poet, representative of Fujian School, master of Confucianism, Buddha named Zhu Xi. Zhu is the only one of the twelve philosophers in Dacheng Hall who worships Confucius Temple without being personally handed down by Confucius.

Zhu is a student, a disciple of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, and served as the governor of Nankang, Jiangxi, Zhangzhou, Fujian and eastern Zhejiang. He is an honest official and promotes the construction of academies. This official worships Huan's attendance system and gives lectures to the emperor. Zhu Zhu is the author of Notes on Four Books and Sentences, Notes on Taiji, Notes on General Books, Readings of Zhouyi, Notes on Chu Ci, etc. Later generations compiled Zhuzi Daquan and Zhuzi Xiang. Among them, "Notes to Four Books and Chapters" became the standard of textbooks and imperial examinations.