A native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, he was the most famous figure of the Yongjia School, a neo-Confucianism School composed mostly of philosophers from Wenzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang province.
The passage describes a person who is a native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang and a key member of the Yongjia School, a neo-Confucianism school with roots in Wenzhou Prefecture.