Zhan Ruoshui, formerly known as Lou, was renamed Yu in order to avoid his ancestors. Later, it was named Ruoshui, and it was called Teacher Ganquan. It is said that his parents prayed at Ganquan Cave in Zengcheng before giving birth to him. Others said that he was called Ganquan because he lived there in Zengcheng, and his theory was called "Ganquanxue". In the second year of Chenghua, Zhan Ruoshui was born in Shabei, Zengcheng, Guangdong. He suffered many setbacks in the examination room. Hongzhi went to Jiangmen in the seventh year and studied under the master of Neo-Confucianism, Chen Xianzhang. He was inculcated by Chen Xianzhang, and realized the mentality of "knowing and doing as one". He is deeply appreciated by Chen Xianzhang and is expected to inherit the one-card rice bowl of Liaoning University of Technology. Zhan Shui really lived up to the teacher's expectations, and devoted all his academic and educational activities to inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of Baisha, spared no effort to spread the theory of Baisha, established more academies in various places, and preached the theory of Baisha. Most colleges have dedicated places to commemorate Chen Xianzhang to commemorate academic history. He was a disciple of Chen Xianzhang all his life until the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing. The 85-year-old Zhan Ruoshui has become a world-renowned master, still building a temple statue for his teacher in Baiyun Mountain, Guangzhou, and leading his disciples to hold a ceremony respectfully.
Zhan Ruoshui won the Hongzhi 18 senior high school entrance examination, was elected as Jishi Shu, and was awarded the title of editor of the Hanlin Academy to study with Wang Shouren. In ten years, Zheng De stayed in Guangdong for seven years in order to keep his mother's funeral home, and successively founded several academies, such as Zengcheng Mingcheng Academy, Xiqiao Yungu Academy, Nanhai Academy and Dake Academy. Since the first year of Jiajing, he has been an official for eighteen years. He has served as imperial academy of Nanjing, the official minister of Nanjing and the minister of war. Nanjing Sixth Department is a nominal idle post. Zhan Ruoshui used his spare time to write books and give lectures, and the number of people increased greatly. Meanwhile, Wu Yunxiang, the Guangdong provincial judge, was entrusted to establish Baisha Academy in the former site of Yuexiu Mountain pilgrimage temple, which was presided over by Chen She, the grandson of Chen Xianzhang. Zhan Ruoshui wrote an inscription for Baisha Academy in Yuexiu Mountain, Guangdong Province, explaining the reasons and process of building the Academy. Go back to Zengcheng Jianlian East Academy and go to Boluo to build Ganquan Jingshe.
In the 19th year of Jiajing, Zhan Ruoshui ended his life as an official and returned to Guangdong. After returning to Guangzhou, he settled in Tianguan, Polo Luofu Mountain, Xiqiao Mountain in Nanhai, and Ganquan in Zengcheng, and established academies. He lived in four houses in four seasons. Four-habitat songs are self-created, including Luo Fuchun Fahua, Xixia Qiao Mufan; The phrase "autumn water is clear, oasis is cold in winter" is reassuring. Of these four apartments, Tianguan, a prosperous city in Guangzhou, is the largest. There is a garden house covering an area of 10 mu, and there is an academy named Tianguan Jingshe in the south of the mansion. In the college where he teaches, there is an interesting story in the history of education in China. First, 77-year-old Wu Tengchuan respects Zhan Ruoshui's moral knowledge and earnestly worships him as a teacher. Three years later, 82-year-old Li Yangzhen and 8 1 year-old Huang Shenzhai also came to worship Zhan Ruoshui as their teacher. Three people in their eighties, namely "Hao San", wrote a poem named Hao San written by Zhan Re-shui:
New house Zheng Fang and Fujikawa Hao San came to our door at the same time.
Eighty years old, everything is true, but a pure heart still exists.
Later, another one
Although living in a place suitable for all seasons, Zhan Ruoshui, who is old, still goes out to give lectures and run schools from time to time. He gave lectures in Hengshan seven times. At the age of 90, he also traveled to Nanjing and built many academies in various places. He called Ganquan College several times in the southeast, and there are more than 30 famous colleges to test. Most of the time, of course, I give lectures in various academies in Guangdong, and Baiyun, Tianguan and Aofeng academies give lectures in Guangzhou. He also took Chunhua folk custom as his responsibility, set up a rural contract in Tianguan Academy and built a rural contract pavilion. In order to promote learning, cultivate talents and get rich, dozens of pavilions have been set up for scholars from all over the world to pay their respects. In Guangzhou, there are Tiangong, Shangyu, Baiyun, Shangtang and Pujianting Valley. In the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing, Zhan Ruoshui died of illness in Yushan Jingshe, Guangzhou at the age of 94. A month before his death, he was still giving lectures in the university. He is the longest-lived thinker in the history of China's thoughts. He worked hard for education all his life, with nearly 4,000 disciples. The number and wide distribution of its academies are rare in the history of education in China. His academic thoughts and methods have attracted the attention and research of scholars at home and abroad.