二程

Èr Chéng

proper noun

Meanings

1 the Two Chengs, the brothers Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, Neo-Confucian thinkers of the Northern Song

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Examples

HSK 5

二程是北宋有名的学者，哥哥叫程颢，弟弟叫程颐。

Èr Chéng shì Běisòng yǒumíng de xuézhě, gēge jiào Chéng Hào, dìdi jiào Chéng Yí.

The Two Chengs were famous Northern Song scholars: the elder brother was Cheng Hao and the younger Cheng Yi.

HSK 7-9

朱熹继承并发展了二程的学说。

Zhū Xī jìchéng bìng fāzhǎn le Èr Chéng de xuéshuō.

Zhu Xi took up and developed the teachings of the Two Chengs.

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history

程颢 lived from 1032 to 1085 and 程颐 from 1033 to 1107. As teenagers they studied under 周敦颐, and they taught in Luoyang. 朱熹 later built on their ideas, so the school is called 程朱理学.

culture

The idiom 程门立雪, 'standing in the snow at Cheng's door', comes from two students who called on 程颐, found him sitting with his eyes closed and waited quietly until he woke, by which time the snow outside was a foot deep. It praises respect for one's teacher.

Stroke Order

二 èr

程 chéng