Alas, not everyone was as good a judge of character as Xing. People did not always find Zhu's outspoken manner to their liking, and in his lifetime his thought was condemned as "false learning." It was only in the late Southern Song that there was a "reversal of verdicts" and he was "rehabilitated."
可惜像辛棄疾這樣的「明眼人」不多，在朱熹過世前，由於他的直言不得當道所喜，他所建立的學問，還被判為「偽學」，直到南宋末才「平反」。