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Lianxi and Zhou Dunyi

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The philosopher and the stream that named him

Zhou Dunyi wrote the diagram that founded Neo-Confucianism, and his home county of Dao still names itself after the Lian stream he took as his title. Born there in 1017, he gave the county's subdistrict, academy and square the Lianxi name it now wears.