"Zhengmeng", also known as "Zhang Zizhengmeng", Zhang Zai is one of the five sons of the Northern Song Dynasty and an unavoidable figure in the history of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties. Most of his works have been lost. Fortunately, "Zheng Meng", as his most important work, has been preserved, which is a blessing to future generations. It was written in the ninth year of Xining (1076).
"Meng" is the name of a hexagram in the "Book of Changes". The hexagram contains the phrase "Meng to nourish righteousness". Meng means ignorance and unclearness; Zheng means correction. This means that they should be cultivated from childhood. Zhang Zai said: "It is the merit of a sage to raise him to be a righteous person." This is where the title of the book comes from.
Zhang Zai's "Zheng Meng" was his final work in his later years, fully demonstrating his theoretical panorama. Wang Chuanshan wrote "Zhang Zizheng Meng Zhu", which basically completely inherited and developed Zhang Zai's philosophical system of Qi theory. Chuanshan school can be called the last and largest school in the history of Chinese Confucianism. It has profound thinking and distinctive ideological characteristics. He interpreted the whole book and regarded "Zheng Meng" as the source of Confucian argumentation, which shows the depth and strength of the book's philosophical theoretical construction. A better interpretation is Zhou Yun's interpretation of "Zhengmeng".
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