Zhou Dunyi is the founder of Neo-Confucianism. Neo-Confucianism founded by Zhou Dunyi became the guiding ideology for scholars of Huxiang school. Zhou Dunyi's Neo-Confucian thoughts and his thoughts on education and talent cultivation played an important role in the forming of Huxiang Culture and in cultivating talented persons in Hunan. Under the direct and indirect influence of Zhou, there have been three surges in emergence of talented persons in Hunan: one in the South Song Dynasty, one in late Ming Dynasty, and one in Middle Qing Dynasty, and there e- merged fiv...