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![Zhu wrote on music theory and temperament (five treatises survive), music history (two treatises survive), dance and dance music (five treatises survive), and several other works. Three music theory works in particular are associated with the ideas of equal temperament, the Lü Xue Xin Shuo
「律學新說」('on the equal temperament', 1584)，LiiLiZheng 了「律呂精義」(A clear explanation
of that which concerns the equal temperament",
1595/96), and Suan Xue Xin Shuo 「算學新說」
("Reflection on mathematics", 1603). His work has been described as "the crowning achievement of two millennia of acoustical experiment and research" (Robinson 1962:224)13] and he is described as "one of the most important historians of his nation's music" [4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n7zttrwglryfssyh2yycb5fr/bafkreihpcukqyxcrfq7rtlyqt3kxsso4q536lefnee776d4ey724p2leam)
![Zhu's work on equal temperament did not get any official recognition during his lifetime nor during the Qing dynasty. This was due to the Ming and Qing emphasis on classical scholarship and discouragement of ideas based on empirical observation rather than textual interpretations. [5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n7zttrwglryfssyh2yycb5fr/bafkreic3ocjgfcwtsh537liag45rmxvtu2wyezhbdhsjlpkafump6z5yve)
