People's Daily reporter Wei Yanxing

"Ask the canal to be as clear as possible, for there is a source of living water", "wait for leisure to know the east wind, thousands of purples and thousands of reds are always spring", "young people are easy to learn from old people, and it is difficult to learn an inch, and an inch of time is not light"...... The spring is bright, and in the Zhu Xi Garden on the bank of Jiuqu River in Wuyi Mountain, the vigorous recitation of teenagers can be heard from time to time. Not far away, many tourists stopped in front of the statue of Zhu Zi to take photos and feel the charm of science.

Zhu Xi was a thinker, philosopher, and educator in the Southern Song Dynasty, and was revered as "Zhu Zi" by later generations. In recent years, many places in Fujian, including Nanping and Sanming, have strengthened the protection, inheritance, development and utilization of Zhuzi culture, and endowed it with a new connotation of the times, so as to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional culture.

The stone sculpture of Zhu Xi in Nanping. Image source: Visual China

閩北是朱子生活、求學、講學、著述的重要區域。行走在閩北大地，武夷精舍、考亭書院、星溪書院……上百處歷史遺跡，串起了朱熹“琴書五十載”的人生脈絡。

Recently, "Zhu Zi's Journey in Northern Fujian" was officially launched, combining historical and modern drawing techniques, through careful drawing and detailed annotation, intuitively showing the many traces left by Zhu Zi in northern Fujian. The general public and tourists can easily understand the experience of Zhuzi in northern Fujian through it, enter the Zhuzi culture in a more intuitive and interesting way, and appreciate the unique cultural charm in the mountains and rivers of northern Fujian.

According to reports, Nanping City has made many achievements in the materialization, education and activation of Zhuzi culture, including scholarly Jianyang, Wuyishan research, politics and filial piety, etc., which have become cultural brands, and launched Zhuzi culture-related tourism routes, running out of the "acceleration" of high-quality development of the cultural and tourism industry.

From urban landscapes to cultural and creative products, from public service advertisements to online emojis, the image of Zhu Zi is entering all aspects of citizens' lives. In Shaowu, Jian'ou and other places, cultural venues, historical and cultural blocks, etc., set up intangible cultural heritage skills inheritance training bases to create a cultural experience scene based on research, make full use of historical sites, historical materials, cultural relics, stories, etc., and immerse tourists and children in the cultural atmosphere in an interactive way, so that young people can fall in love with traditional culture.

In order to let Zhuzi culture go out of the classics and into the lives of the people, Sanming City deeply excavated the essence of Zhuzi culture, not only integrated it into national education, but also launched film and television works such as "Exploration of Ancient County - Zhuzi's Hometown, Fujian Youxi", "Into Zhu Xi", "New Year's Moon Youxi Immersion Cloud Shadow", and at the same time created film and television dramas such as "Great Confucian Zhu Xi" and "Young Zhu Xi" and songs such as "Nine Thoughts" and "Persuasion", so that Zhuzi culture radiates new vitality and vitality in the new era.

The source is long, and the roots are deep. Nowadays, through creative transformation and innovative development, Zhuzi culture is not only "hot", but also "lively", with deep roots and endless growth in the land of northern Fujian.