The Interaction between Zhou Dunyi and Shu Scholars in the Northern Song

Zhou Dunyi became an officer of Shu area and made friends with the scholars there in the middle of the Northern Song.The scholars who contacted with him fall into three categories: colleagues and subordinates, local scholars and relatives. Their communication and discussion not only enriched the content of Shu studies, but also contributed to the later development of neo-confucianism in Sichuan area or even all over the country. There are three lost poems of Zhou Dunyi's attached which may be helpful to the relative research.