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Cheng Yi
Cheng Yi was a Chinese classicist, philosopher and politician of the Song dynasty who, with his older brother Cheng Hao and later Zhu Xi, gave his name to the Cheng–Zhu, or Rationalistic, school of neo-Confucianism. He gained the 'presented scholar' degree in 1059, taught in Luoyang and declined many high offices. He campaigned against the reforms of Wang Anshi and in 1086 was appointed to lecture the emperor, but his enemies, among them Su Shi, had his teachings banned and him banished in 1097. He was pardoned in 1106, a year before his death. He is widely believed responsible for the rise of the cult of widow chastity, though he insisted on it only for scholar-officials.
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